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Publication details [#60322]

Hansson, Sten. 2015. Discursive strategies of blame avoidance in government: A framework for analysis. Discourse & Society 26 (3) : 297–322.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

avoidance language | blaming | discursive practice | public speech | self-presentation

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper presents an upgraded heuristic for comprehending representative macroconversational discursive practices taken on by UK government officeholders in (conflict talk) in public statements in the case of blame risk to attain the target of positive self-presentation.