The 'cartoons controversy': A Critical Discourse Analysis of English-language Arab newspaper discourse

Discourse and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-57

  Hakam, Jamila ^a,b  

^a Sultan Qaboos University ^*

^b SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

Arab; Cartoons; CDA; Dominance; Muslim; Newspaper discourse; Prophet Muhammad; Signals of affiliation; Social conflict; Textual heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149497005     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926508097094     Document Type: Article

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