Showing and telling in parliamentary discourse: The case of repeated interjections to Rabin's speeches in the Israeli parliament

Discourse and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 223-255

  Shenhav, Shaul R ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Interjections; Interruptions; Israel; Knesset; Parliaments; Political discourse; Showing and telling; Yitzhak Rabin

Indexed keywords

EID: 40149095917     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926507085953     Document Type: Article

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