An actor or an undefined threat?: The role of “terrorist” in the discourse of international news agencies

Journal of Language and Politics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 361-404

  Stenvall, Maija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Anti terrorism discourse; Collocation; Factuality; Metaphor; Modality; News agency discourse; Terrorist; Transitivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 17644406084     PISSN: 15692159     EISSN: 15699862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.2.2.10ste     Document Type: Article

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