Talking the talk: Policy, popular and media responses to the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade using the 'Abolition Discourse'

Discourse and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 381-399

  Waterton, Emma ^a   Wilson, Ross ^b  

^a KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

1807 commemorated; Abolition discourse; Critical discourse analysis; Multiculturalism; Slavery; The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649139087     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926509102409     Document Type: Article

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