Moralising class: A discourse analysis of the mainstream political response to Occupy and the August 2011 British riots

Discourse and Society

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-45

  Bennett, Joe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Class; critical discourse analysis; David Cameron; discourse; Ed Miliband; neoliberalism; Occupy; realism; recontextualisation; riots

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872480166     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926512463634     Document Type: Article

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