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Describing a national crisis: An exploration in textual analysis

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Bernard Hammond, Bryan Green, and Paul Boghossian generously gave their time to critically read earlier versions of this essay.

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Chua, BH. Describing a national crisis: An exploration in textual analysis. Hum Stud 2, 47–61 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02127215

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