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The previous chapter examined cross-categorisation, which describes how social categories intersect within and across both the viewer’s and the character’s multiple identities. We analysed the implications of ingroup–outgroup category binaries, as well as shared ingroup categories. This chapter examines recategorisation, which creates a new, superordinate category that absorbs the viewer’s and the character’s categories into a single common ingroup. In the first configuration, ‘common ingroup category’, the original ingroup and outgroup categories are deliberately dissolved into the common ingroup, whereas in the second configuration, ‘dual identity’, the original ingroup and outgroup categories remain salient alongside the common ingroup.
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Brylla, C. (2023). Recategorisation. In: Documentary and Stereotypes. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26372-9_10
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