The european union in cyberspace: Multilingual democratic participation in a virtual public sphere?

Journal of Language and Politics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 251-275

  Wodak, Ruth ^a   Wright, Scott ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Argumentaion analysis; Discourse analysis; Electronic democracy; European union; Language policies; Multilingualism; Multimodality; Public sphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547734260     PISSN: 15692159     EISSN: 15699862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.5.2.07wod     Document Type: Article

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