Publications

Publication details [#46469]

Wilson, John and Karyn Stapleton. 2007. The discourse of resistance: Social change and policing in Northern Ireland. Language in Society 36 (3) : 393–425.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
discourse | political language | social change | sociolinguistics
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper explores how a linguistic analysis of policing speech in Northern Ireland can inspire and be inspired by more general social theories.