Explaining it to ourselves: The phases of national mourning in space tragedy

1 January 1986

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Central States Speech Journal

Vol. 37 (3) , 180-192
https://doi.org/10.1080/10510978609368217

Abstract

This essay relies on grief literature to develop a heuristic model of patterned stages of national mourning. This model is applied to lend insight into print mediated accounts of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

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