Doing disagreement in the house of lords: 'talking around the issue' as a context-appropriate argumentative strategy

Discourse and Communication

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-168

  Robles, Jessica S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

argument; conflict; context; disagreement; discourse analysis; emotionality; institutionality; politics; positioning; strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955700062     PISSN: 17504813     EISSN: 17504821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750481310395452     Document Type: Article

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