The representation of non-protesters in a student and teacher protest: A critical discourse analysis of news reporting in a greek newspaper

Discourse and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 653-680

  Stamou, Anastasia G ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Causation scale; Critical discourse analysis (CDA); Dominant discourse of protest; Ergativity; Justification; News; Non protesters; Protest (script); Representation; Transitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035602151     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926501012005005     Document Type: Article

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