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Part II - Performance and Falsehood

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

Janet McIntosh
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Brandeis University, Massachusetts
Norma Mendoza-Denton
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Language in the Trump Era
Scandals and Emergencies
, pp. 89 - 148
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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