Disinterring ideology from a corpus of obituaries: A critical post mortem

Discourse and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 495-536

  Moore, Stephen H ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Corpus; Critical Discourse Analysis; Ideational metafunction; Ideology; Media discourse; Obituary; Systemic Functional Grammar; The Economist

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038070516     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926502013004071     Document Type: Review

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