How Sports Fans Forge Intergroup Competition Through Language: The Case of Verbal Irony

Human Communication Research

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 435-457

  Burgers, Christian ^a   Beukeboom, Camiel J ^a   Kelder, Martinke ^a   Peeters, Martine M E ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Intergroup Communication; Language; Linguistic Bias; Social Identity Theory; Sports; Verbal Irony

Indexed keywords

EID: 84931011427     PISSN: 03603989     EISSN: 14682958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/hcre.12052     Document Type: Article

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