Why we must attack Iraq: Bush's reasoning practices and argumentation system

Discourse and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 453-482

  Chang, Gordon C ^a   Mehan, Hugh B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arguments; Conventions of reasoning; Discourse strategies; Knowledge; War on terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 46449130873     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926508089939     Document Type: Article

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