Crafting coincidence : the rhetoric of improbable events

This study develops a sociological approach to the study of coincidence. It uses real-life, textual accounts of coincidences sourced from the Cambridge Coincidence Collection to examine the ways in which events are constructed as coincidences and as non-coincidences in discourse. This is a direct de...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stockbridge, Germaine Maria
Other Authors: Wooffitt, Robin
Published: University of York 2017
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.727384