Communicating affect in news stories: The case of the lead sentence

Text and Talk

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 329-349

  Khalil, Esam N ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affect; Cross cultural communication; Grammar; News discourse; Perspective

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247363274     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/TEXT.2006.013     Document Type: Review

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