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Article published In: Conflict and violence in pragmatic research
Edited by Charles L. Briggs
[Pragmatics 7:4] 1997
► pp. 575–599

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“You gotta be a man or a girl”

Constructed dialogue and reflexivity in the discourse of violence

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Published online: 1 December 1997
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