FANGS AND POWER: An analysis of discursive patterns of discrimination in the American TV series True Blood

The American TV series True Blood uses vampires allegorically to represent disenfranchised minorities. This paper aims at accounting for discursive patterns of discrimination in it through a critical discourse-semantic analysis of its illocutionary subjects’ speech acts. To achieve this, we integrat...

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Main Authors: Ernesto Wong García, William Gómez Fernández
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:Cogent Arts & Humanities
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2018.1423864