Constructing threat and appropriating "civil rights": Rhetorical strategies of gun rights and english only leaders

Symbolic Interaction

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-31

  Lio, Shoon ^b   Melzer, Scott ^a   Reese, Ellen ^b  

^a ALBION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 38349156055     PISSN: 01956086     EISSN: 15338665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/si.2008.31.1.5     Document Type: Article

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