The News Story as Rhetoric: linguistic approaches to the analysis of journalistic discourse

Communicating Conflict: Multilingual Case Studies of the News Media

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-24

  White, P R R ^a   Thomson, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

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