Reporting Bloodshed in Thai Newspapers: a comparative case study of English and Thai

Communicating Conflict: Multilingual Case Studies of the News Media

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 173-202

  Knox, John S ^a   Patpong, Pattama ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

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