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Publication details [#44702]

Jaworski, Adam and Crispin Thurlow. 2006. The alchemy of the upwardly mobile: symbolic capital and the stylization of elites in frequent-flyer programmes. Discourse & Society 17 (1) : 99–135.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

critical discourse analysis | discourse strategy | genre | international context | social class

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper presents a critical discourse analysis of airline frequent-flyer programmes and their related business-class services, stylizing preferred passengers as socoial elites.