Restoring order: Interpreting suicide through a Burkean lens

Communication Quarterly

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-18

  Messner, Beth A ^a   Buckrop, Jacquelyn J ^a  

^a BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Burke; Order; Purification; Restoration; Suicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 8744253949     PISSN: 01463373     EISSN: 17464102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01463370009385575     Document Type: Article

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