Crash under investigation: Engaging complications of complicity, coherence, and implicature through critical analysis

Critical Studies in Media Communication

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-156

  Orbe, Mark P ^a   Kinefuchi, Etsuko ^b  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coherence; Complicity; Crash; Implicature; Race Relations

Indexed keywords

EID: 45949109199     PISSN: 15295036     EISSN: 14795809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15295030802032275     Document Type: Review

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