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Publication details [#33438]
Scollon, Suzanne. 2003. Threat or business as usual? A multimodal, intertextual analysis of a political statement. In Dedaic, Mirjana N. and Daniel Nelson, eds. At War With Words. (Language, Power and Social Process 10). 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
This discourse analytic study of the news coverage of a press conference held March 11, 1996, during the Taiwan missile crisis, demonstrates how reporters use neutral or
evaluative verbs to define an ideological position for themselves and their audience.