A rhetorical perspective on the 1997 British party manifestos

Political Communication

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 457-473

  Smith, Craig Allen ^a   Smith, Kathy B ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

1997 Elections; Ashdown; Blair; British elections; Campaign rhetoric; Conservative; Labour; Liberal democrat; Major; Manifesto

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034341787     PISSN: 10584609     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10584600050179068     Document Type: Article

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