Language and politics: Indirectness in political discourse

Discourse and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 49-83

  Obeng, Samuel Gyasi ^a  

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Author keywords

Circumlocution; Evasion; Face; Indirectness; Innuendo; Metaphor

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031538527     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926597008001004     Document Type: Article

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