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Urban, Greg. 1988. The pronominal pragmatics of nuclear war discourse. Multilingua 7 (1-2) : 67–93.
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English
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Focusing on the issue of how patterns of discourse influence thought about nuclear war, this paper undertakes an empirical analysis of two influential American texts (J. Schell's `The Fate of the Earth' and former Defense Secretary Weinberger's `US Defense Strategy') with specific regard to use of the first person plural pronoun (`we').

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