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Publication details [#46404]

Fenton-Smith, Ben. 2007. Diplomatic condolences: ideological positioning in the death of Yasser Arafat. Discourse & Society 18 (6) : 697–718.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ambiguity | critical discourse analysis | diplomacy | ideology | political language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Using critical discourse analysis and systemic functional linguistics, this paper explores ideological positioning in different world governments' diplomatic condolence messages after the death of Arafat in November 2004, given his ambiguous status.