Positioning lawyers: Discursive resources, professional ethics and identification

Organization

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 681-704

  Kuhn, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; Discourse; Discursive resources; Ethics; Identification; Professional identity; Subject position

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349110993     PISSN: 13505084     EISSN: 14617323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350508409338886     Document Type: Article

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