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Publication details [#26564]
Kline, Susan L. and Glenn Kuper. 1994. Self-presentation practices in government discourse. The case of US Lt. Col. Oliver North. Text 14 (1) : 23–43.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study investigates US Col. Lt. Oliver North's practices for positive social identity construction in the Iran-Contra case. Five recurrent practices are: self-casting, aligning value, styleshifting, employing dialogue motive revelations, and facilitating attributional certainty.