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Publication details [#32490]

Calsamiglia, Helena and Carmen Lopez Ferrero. 2003. Role and position of scientific voices: reported speech in the media. Discourse Studies 5 (2) : 147–174.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | mass media | reported speech | scientific discussion

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

1461-4456

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study examines the presence and function of scientific voices when it is required by such cases as 'mad cow' disease, when the crisis breaks through in the press and investigates the role of scientific information via the analysis of quoted speech used by journalists in their discourse.