Liminality and Othering: The Issue of Rhetorical Authority in Technical Discourse

Journal of Business and Technical Communication

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 9-38

  Jeyaraj, Joseph ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Liminality; Othering; Postcolonial theory; Rhetoric; Technical communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 0842302625     PISSN: 10506519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1050651903257958     Document Type: Review

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