Selling home: Corporate stadium names and the destruction of commemoration

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 330-346

  Boyd, Josh ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Commemoration; Corporate discourse; Naming; Public memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040782427     PISSN: 00909882     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00909880009365580     Document Type: Article

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