Frequency and specificity of referents to violence in news reports of anti-gay attacks

Discourse and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 75-104

  Henley, Nancy M ^a   Miller, Michelle D ^b   Beazley, Jo Anne ^a   Nguyen, Diane N ^d   Kaminsky, Dana ^c   Sanders, Robert ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d California State University ^*

Author keywords

Anaphor; Discourse; Homophobia; Mass media; Nominalization; Reference; Sexual orientation; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036103944     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926502013001004     Document Type: Review

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