Words that strike and words that comfort: Discursive dynamics of verbal abuse in Roddy Doyle's The Woman Who Walked Into Doors

Journal of Gender Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 107-122

  Mildorf, Jarmila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Discourse; Literature; Power; Sociolinguistics; Verbal abuse; Women's place

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944491211     PISSN: 09589236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09589230500133536     Document Type: Review

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