Publications

Publication details [#51619]

Lihua, Liu. 2009. Discourse construction of social power: interpersonal rhetoric in editorials of the China Daily. Discourse Studies 11 (1) : 59–78.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

editorial | newspaper report | opinion | power | rhetoric

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper deals with discursive social power and public opinion construction through modal expressions in interpersonal rhetoric (patterns) in editorials of the China Daily.