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Canning, Patricia. 2018. ‘No ordinary crowd’: Foregrounding a ‘hooligan schema’ in the construction of witness narratives following the Hillsborough football stadium disaster. Discourse & Society 29 (3) : 237–255.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications

Annotation

This paper explores linguistic appropriation and blame deflection in the deponent testimonies and proof-collecting processes of the South Yorkshire Police (SYP) following the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium calamity. It uses schema theory to examine how a ‘hooligan’ narrative was easily invoked and adopted by the SYP.