Representations of Disability in a Large Norwegian News Corpus: A Topic Modeling Approach Informed by Critical Discourse Studies
By: Håvard Tvedt Bakka and Jan Grue
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.16993/sjdr.1248 | Journal eISSN: 1745-3011
Language: English
Page range: 240 - 253
Submitted on: Jan 3, 2025
Accepted on: Apr 22, 2025
Published on: May 14, 2025
Published by: Stockholm University Press
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