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Publication details [#49148]

Jaworski, Adam and Richard Fitzgerald. 2008. 'This poll has not happened yet': temporal play in election predictions. Discourse & Communication 2 (1) : 5–27.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

election manifesto | political discussion | prediction | temporal

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This paper examines the discursive manipulation of temporal relations in the 2001 UK election campaign, and the way politicians gained political capital out of the Conservative Party's 'breach' with regard to the routine structure of election predictions.