Marion barry's road to redemption: A textual analysis of ABC's news story aired on 14 september 1994

Howard Journal of Communications

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 315-327

  Roy, Abhik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anchoring; Associational mode; Critical approach; Deconstruction; Marion Barry; Modern racism; Stereotype; Textual analysis; Visual coding

Indexed keywords

EID: 85007861839     PISSN: 10646175     EISSN: 10964649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10646179609361734     Document Type: Article

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