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Publication details [#27783]

Verkuyten, Maykel. 1996. "Twelve angry men": Accounting for Britain´s minority position during the EU summit in Maastricht. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 15 (4) : 444–467.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | identity negotiation | minority | newspaper report | political discussion

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Sage Periodical Press

ISBN

0261-927X

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores British newspapers' justificatory account of the British minority position at the European Union Maastricht summit of 1991, focusing on the construction of systems of social categorization and on the argumentative strategies employed in identity construction.