The ideological remapping of semantic roles in totalitarian discourse, or, how to paint white roses red

Discourse and Society

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 57-80

  Ilie, Cornelia ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Agent role; Agentless passive constructions; Agentless reflexive passive constructions; Deagentivized active constructions; Institutional mapping of semantic roles; Instrument role; Locative role; Patient role; Semantic role; Totalitarian discourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032342330     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926598009001003     Document Type: Article

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