What does ‘we’ mean?: National deixis in the media*

Journal of Language and Politics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 419-436

  Petersoo, Pille ^a  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Banal nationalism; Deictic expressions; National identity; Personal pronoun we ; Print media; Scotland

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749158709     PISSN: 15692159     EISSN: 15699862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.6.3.08pet     Document Type: Article

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