What message does 'send a message' send?

Journal of Language and Politics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 290-320

  Emanatian, Michele ^a   Delaney, David ^b  

^a Five Colleges   (United States)

^b AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Euphemism; Metaphor; Metonymy; Political discourse; Propaganda; Rationality; Rhetorical displacement; War

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849124934     PISSN: 15692159     EISSN: 15699862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.7.2.06ema     Document Type: Article

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