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Publication details [#32311]

Johnson, Sally, Jonathan Culpeper and Stephanie Suhr. 2003. From 'politically correct councillors' to 'Blairite nonsense': discourses of 'political correctness' in three British newspapers. Discourse & Society 14 (1) : 29–48.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

correctness | discourse analysis | mass media | newspaper report | political language

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper examines shifts in the discourse of 'political correctness' ('PC') in a corpus of articles gathered from three broadsheet UK newspapers between 1994 and 1999. Besides an overall decline in the use of 'PC'-related terms throughout the period in question, there are some interesting changes in the way in which discourses of 'political correctness' have been drawn upon as a means of framing debates over the British Labour Party.