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Publication details [#12408]

Leeuwen, Theo van. 1996. The representation of social actors. In Caldas-Coulthard, Carmen-Rosa and R. Malcolm Coulthard, eds. Texts and Practices. Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis. Routledge. pp. 32–70.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

critical discourse analysis | representational structure

Annotation

The author examines how social actors can be represented in English discourse, and the representation of relevant social actors in an instance of a particular kind of racist discourse, representing immigration in a way that is founded on fear of loss of livelihood and of cultural identity.