Reporting israel/palestine: Ethnographic insights into the verbal and visual rhetoric of bbc journalism

Journalism Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 594-622

  Richardson, John E ^a   Barkho, Leon ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b JÖNKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Bbc; Discourse; Israel; Palestine; Visual rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992423720     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616700802653057     Document Type: Article

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