'i take full responsibility, i take some responsibility, i'll take half of it but no more than that': Princess diana and the negotiation of blame in the 'panorama' interview

Discourse Studies

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 297-319

  Abell, Jackie ^a   Stokoe, Elizabeth H ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Panorama'; Accountability; Blame; Conversation analysis; Discourse analysis; Martin Bashir; Media; Princess Diana; Stake management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007263072     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445699001003002     Document Type: Article

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