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Articles

Multimodal news discourse and COVID-19: on the interplay between stylistic features and images in three UK newsbrands’ early framing of (the pandemic in) Italy

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Pages 162-179 | Received 19 May 2023, Accepted 20 Feb 2024, Published online: 27 Mar 2024

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