Gender and mediatized political discourse: A case study of press coverage of Margaret Beckett's campaign for the Labour leadership in 1994

Language and Literature

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 199-214

  Walsh, Clare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collocation; Discourse; Gender; Media; Metaphor; News narratives; Politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040059150     PISSN: 09639470     EISSN: 14617293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096394709800700302     Document Type: Article

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