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© Andrea Mayr and David Machin 2012

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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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ISBN: 978-1-4411-9891-4

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The language of crime and deviance: an introduction to critical linguistic analysis in media and popular culture / Andrea Mayr and David Machin.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Sociolinguistics. 2. Mass media and language3. Language and culture. 4. Discourse analysis. I. Machin, David, Ph. D. II. Title.

P40.M398 2011

306.44–dc23

2011020736