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Publication details [#11759]

Flowerdew, John. 1997. The Discourse of Colonial Withdrawal: A Case Study in the Creation of Mythic Discourse. Discourse & Society 8 (4) : 453–477. 25 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
discourse strategy | discourse structure | indexical | political language | presupposition | reiteration
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
ISBN
0957-9265
Journal WWW
www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

An analysis of discursive strategies promoting the myth of Britain's honorable withdrawal from Hong Kong: transformation of old and introduction of new political genres, presupposition, the use of indexicals in comparison with lexical structuring and reiteration.