The voice of authority: The local accomplishment of authoritative discourse in live news broadcasts

Discourse Studies

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 354-379

  Raymond, Geoffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

authority; conversation analysis; discourse; interaction; live news broadcasts; news

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993810448     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445600002003005     Document Type: Article

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