(Khao naa nung): A Multimodal Analysis of Thai-language Newspaper Front Pages

New Discourse on Language: Functional Perspectives on Multimodality, Identity, and Affiliation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 80-110

  Knox, John S ^a   Patpong, Pattama ^b   Piriyasilpa, Yupaporn ^c  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^c RAJAMANGALA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY ISAN   (Thailand)

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