Textual analysis of a political message: The inaugural addresses of two Korean presidents

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Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 215-239

  Chung, Chung Joo ^a   Park, Han Woo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Political message; Presidential inaugural address; Text analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952610393     PISSN: 05390184     EISSN: 14617412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0539018409359370     Document Type: Article

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