Is the press release a genre? A study of form and content

Discourse Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 503-530

  Lassen, Inger ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biotechnology discourse; Communicative purposes; Context; Intertextuality; News releases; Press releases

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746137365     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445606061875     Document Type: Review

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