Playing with environmental stories in the news - good or bad practice?

Discourse and Communication

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-31

  Bednarek, Monika ^a   Caple, Helen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Allusion; Appraisal; Corpus; Critical discourse analysis; Ecolinguistics; Environmental reporting; Positive discourse analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949510633     PISSN: 17504813     EISSN: 17504821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750481309351206     Document Type: Article

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