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Publication details [#42600]
O’Halloran, Kieran A. 2005. Mystification and social agent absences: a critical discourse analysis using evolutionary psychology. Journal of Pragmatics 37 (12) : 1945–1964. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This contribution to mystification analysis in critical discourse analysis, uses texts from a UK newspaper website campaign, advocating the access of parents to child sex offender data, to demonstrate how evolutionary psychology can be employed to highlight social agent absences that are generally mystifying for readers.