To spray or not to spray: The discursive construction of contested environmental issues in the news media

Discourse, Context and Media

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 123-130

  Lidskog, Rolf ^a   Olausson, Ulrika ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Critical discourse analysis; Environmental sociology; Journalistic routines; Media logic; News media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880354585     PISSN: 22116958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcm.2013.06.001     Document Type: Article

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