Rhetorical strategies and identity politics in the discourse of colonial withdrawal

Journal of Language and Politics

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 149-180

  Flowerdew, John ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Antithesis; Identity; Identity politics; Metaphor; National identity; Parallelism; Political rhetoric; Rhetoric; The classical unities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989402434     PISSN: 15692159     EISSN: 15699862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.1.1.09flo     Document Type: Article

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