Mystifying discourse : a critique of current assumptions and an alternative framework for analysis

The thesis is concerned with texts that mystify events being reported. It begins by focusing on Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), a currently prominent enterprise, one of whose concerns is with the isolation of text which mystifies the nature of events described. When CDA isolates mystifying text,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Halloran, Kieran
Published: University College London (University of London) 2000
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.630770