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Set against the backdrop of the moral panic over 'Asian gangs' in the mid-1990s, and based on 5 years of ethnographic fieldwork, the book explored the idea of 'the gang', friendships, and the role of 'brothers' in the formation, performance and negotiation of ethnic, religious and gendered identities.  Free Download Carmen Rosa Caldas-Coulthard, "Texts and Practices Revisited Ed 2" English | ISBN: 1032225114 | 2023 | 292 pages | EPUB, PDF | 8 MB + 33 MB This is a second edition of the ground- breaking volume Texts and Practices: Readings in Critical Discourse Analysis, which was the first published collection of chapters presenting critical discourse analysis theory and practice. Critical discursive approaches have now become the main trend in most discursive and semiotic investigations. 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