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Publication details [#66880]

Garcia, Angela Cora. 2019. Bordering work in contemporary political discourse: The case of the US/Mexico border wall proposal. Discourse & Society 30 (6) : 573–599.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
conversational analysis | critical discourse analysis | discourse strategy | immigrant | persuading | political discussion | political speech | political system
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Journal WWW
www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper employs a critical discourse analytic approach to explore how President Trump’s campaign goal to build a wall along the US/Mexico border has been debated in United States political discourse. It demonstrates how the border wall proposal is reformulated into a debate about border security.