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The illegal transgression: discourse analysis of the media perception of the transgressive aesthetic of performance and display in top-level sports

Sandra GünterDepartment of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, NorwayCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 626-639 | Published online: 17 Nov 2015

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