Dating advertisements: Discourses of the commodified self

Discourse and Society

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 187-207

  Coupland, Justine ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Commodification; Dating advertisements; Marketization; Personalization; Relationship construction; Self identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007237873     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926596007002003     Document Type: Article

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