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Publication details [#11785]
Lakoff, Robin Tolmach. 1997. The O.J. Simpson Case As An Exercise In Narrative Analysis. Discourse Processes 23 (3) : 547–566. 20 pp. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Person as a subject
Place, Publisher
Ablex Publishing Company
ISBN
0163-853X
Annotation
An illustration of how linguistics contributes to discourse analysis. Media reports of a murder trial are viewed as a cultural creation, detachment and re-creation of cohesion through the making of narrative.