Co-constructing identities in speeches: How the construction of an 'other' identity is defining for the 'self' identity and vice versa

Pragmatics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 491-509

  Van De Mieroop, Dorien ^a  

^a Department of Applied Language Studies   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Altercasting; Identity construction; Recipient design; Speeches; Standardized relational pairs

Indexed keywords

EID: 54949134086     PISSN: 10182101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/prag.18.3.07mie     Document Type: Article

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