President bush's image repair effort on meet the press: The complexities of defeasibility

Journal of Applied Communication Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 285-306

  Benoit, William L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Economy; Image Repair Discourse; Iraq; Leadership Style; Meet the Press; National Guard; President George W. Bush

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745648770     PISSN: 00909882     EISSN: 14795752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00909880600771635     Document Type: Review

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