Deflecting responsibility in employer talk about race discrimination

Discourse and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 651-676

  Tilbury, Farida ^a   Colic Peisker, Val ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Critical discourse analysis; Employment; Migrants; Racism; Refugees; Responsibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645874738     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926506066349     Document Type: Article

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