President Bush's major post-Katrina speeches: Enhancing image repair discourse theory applied to the public sector

Public Relations Review

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-48

  Liu, Brooke Fisher ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis communication; Disaster communication; Hurricane Katrina; Image repair discourse; Political communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847015539     PISSN: 03638111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pubrev.2006.11.003     Document Type: Article

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