Ron Scollon

Analyzing Public Discourse

Discourse Analysis in the Making of Public Policy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrates the use of discourse analysis to provide testimony in public policy consultations: from environmental impact statements to changes in laws and policies. This work asserts that it is in the best interest of democratic public discourse for all participants in the process to be working with a common discursive framework.

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Analyzing Public Discourse demonstrates the use of discourse analysis to provide testimony in public policy consultations: from environmental impact statements to changes in laws and policies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780415770941
• ISBN-10: 0415770947
• Artikelnr.: 23594393

Autorenporträt

Ron Scollon

Inhaltsangabe

1. Alaskan Oil, Scottish Scallops and German Paints: Public Consultative
Discourse Analysis 2. Action in Critical Discourse Analysis 3. The
Representation of Action: Summarization, Framing and Synchronisation 4.
When Discourses Collide: Politics, Law, Science and Government in the Sale
of Oil and Gas leases 5. Document Types: Who Says So? Who do they think I
am? 6. Modes and Modality 7. Documents to Mediate Action