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Personalising crime and crime-fighting in factual television: an analysis of social actors and transitivity in language and images

David Machin Department of Media and Communication, Orebro University, Fakultetsgatan 1, Örebro, 702 81, SwedenCorrespondence[email protected]
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Andrea Mayr School of English, Queen's University Belfast, 2 University Square, Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, UK
Pages 356-372 | Published online: 30 Jul 2013

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