Domestic discord, rocky relationships: Semantic prosodies in representations of marital violence in the O.J. Simpson trial

Discourse and Society

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 291-312

  Cotterill, Janet ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus linguistics; Courtroom discourse; Domestic violence; Forensic linguistics; O.J. Simpson; Semantic prosody

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035630946     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926501012003002     Document Type: Article

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