Presupposition in news discourse

Discourse and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 147-172

  Bekalu, Mesfin Awoke ^a,b  

^a BAHIR DAR UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b NONE   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Cognitive effect; Fair unfair presuppositions of knowledge; Ideology; News discourse; Processing effort

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646720791     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926506060248     Document Type: Article

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