Sincerity and credibility in political interviews: 6. ‘Put bluntly, you have something of a credibility problem’

Fetzer, Anita

doi:10.1075/dapsac.4.10fet

In:Politics as Text and Talk: Analytic approaches to political discourse
Edited by Paul Chilton and Christina Schäffner
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 4] 2002
► pp. 173–201

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6. ‘Put bluntly, you have something of a credibility problem’

Sincerity and credibility in political interviews

Anita Fetzer

Published online: 31 October 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.4.10fet

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