Publications

Publication details [#14581]

Piper, Alison. 2000. Some have credit cards and others have giro cheques: 'individuals' and 'people' as lifelong learners in late modernity. Discourse & Society 11 (4) : 515–542.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agency | corpus analysis | discourse analysis | social science

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

A corpus analytical comparison of 'individuals' and 'people' in lifelong learning discourses reveals differences which can be related to contemporary sociocultural models of individualization, consumption and production, and with the risk society.