Certainty and speculation in news reporting of the future: The execution of Timothy McVeigh

Discourse Studies

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-48

  Jaworski, Adam ^a   Fitzgerald, Richard ^a   Morris, Deborah ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

future; news; prediction; speculation; Timothy McVeigh

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037476883     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14614456030050010201     Document Type: Article

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