Political discourse of a working-class town

Discourse and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 411-438

  Sotillo, Susana M ^a   Starace Nastasi, Dana ^a  

^a MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaffection; Form of argumentation; Gender and class; Letters to the editor; Lexical and syntactic choices; Reader writers; Taxes; Working class town

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033243160     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926599010003006     Document Type: Article

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