Arguing about Muslims: (Un)Reasonable argumentation in letters to the editor

Text and Talk

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-25

  Atkin, Albert ^a   Richardson, John E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Broadsheet newspapers; Muslims; Pragma dialectics; Readers' letters; Reasonableness

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247342885     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/TEXT.2007.001     Document Type: Review

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