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Publication details [#44073]

Duranti, Alessandro. 2006. Narrating the political self in a campaign for U.S. Congress. Language in Society 35 (4) : 467–497.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press

Annotation

This paper employs narrative, pragmatic and semantic analysis to demonstrate how candidates in a Californian Congressional campaign in the mid 1990's explain and defend the coherence of their actions in their choice to compete for the office.