Divide and rule: The power of adversarial subjectivities in the discourse of divorce

Text and Talk

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 791-814

  Wharton, Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bureaucratic discourse; Critical discourse analysis; Family law; Identity; Language and power; Systemic functional linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247379106     PISSN: 18607330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/TEXT.2006.032     Document Type: Review

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