'Telling-it-like-it-is': The delegitimation of the second Palestinian Intifada in Thomas Friedman's discourse

Discourse and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-31

  Amer, M Mosheer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

(de)legitimation; Argumentation; Deictic centre; Dominant themes; Ingroup outgroup presentation; Israel; NYT; Palestinian Intifada; Thomas Friedman

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149497221     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926508097093     Document Type: Article

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