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Publication details [#40832]

Eagleton, Jennifer. 2004. SARS: ‘It's as bad as we feared but dared not say’. English Today 20 (1) : 34–45.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

health | newspaper report | pragmatic implication

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper argues that the ‘pragmatic handling’ of the SARS event in the major English language newspaper of Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post, presents much linguistic interest.