Elite behaviour and elite communication in a divided society: The Belgian federal coalition formation of 2007

Journal of Language and Politics

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 500-520

  Deschouwer, Kris ^a   Temmerman, Martina ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b Department of Applied Linguistics   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Consociational democracy; Discourse analysis; Framing; Journalistic interviews; Political communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873173149     PISSN: 15692159     EISSN: 15699862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.11.4.02des     Document Type: Article

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