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Publication details [#46478]

Buttny, Richard and Jodi R. Cohen. 2007. Drawing on the words of others at public hearings: Zoning, Wal-Mart, and the threat to the aquifer. Language in Society 36 (5) : 735–756.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

economics | environment2 | hearing1

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper focuses on the discursive construction and rhetoric of employing other peoples' words for the speaker's own goal, analyzing two public hearings with regard to a zoning proposal for the construction of a Super Wal-Mart Center on a field over the town's aquifer.