Playing power: Gendered discourses in a computer games magazine

Language and Literature

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 43-55

  Thornborrow, Joanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Address; Discourse; Gender identities; Intertextuality; Representation; Stylistics; Teenage magazines

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248796479     PISSN: 09639470     EISSN: 14617293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096394709700600103     Document Type: Article

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