Duelling discourses, shared weapons: Rhetorical techniques used to challenge racist arguments

Discourse and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 529-547

  Fozdar, Farida ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anti racism; New Zealand; Resistance discourse; Rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 46449134502     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926508089942     Document Type: Article

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