Religious affiliations and masculine power in Jordanian wedding invitation genre

Discourse and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 691-714

  Al Ali, Mohammed Nahar ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Critical discourse analysis; Genre analysis; Socio cultural factors; Wedding invitation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750230136     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926506068428     Document Type: Article

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