Figures for new frontiers, from davy crockett to cyberspace gurus

Quarterly Journal of Speech

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 91-111

  McDaniel, James P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyberspace; Davy Crockett; Figures of speech; Hybridizing; Magnitude; The ridiculous and the sublime; Transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038891676     PISSN: 00335630     EISSN: 14795779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00335630209384361     Document Type: Article

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