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Publication details [#39300]

G¡ndara, Lelia. 2004. ‘They That Sow the Wind...’: Proverbs and Sayings in Argumentation. Discourse & Society 15 (2-3) : 345–359.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argumentation | discourse analysis | everyday conversation | proverb

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper deals with the efficacy of proverbs for argumentative goals. In the texts analyzed here, the use of proverbs introduces a cause-and-effect relationship to the analysis of the 11 September terrorist attacks on the United States of America.