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Publication details [#26970]

Phillips, Geoffrey. 1996. Rhetoric and the spread of the discourse of Thatcherism. Discourse & Society 7 (2) : 209–241.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | manipulating | meaning | political language | rhetoric

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper presents a theoretical model of Thatcherist discourse aimed at creating a new British common sense, focusing on the role of the key word CHOICE in the reproduction and restructuring of this discourse in various sociopolitical areas.