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Publication details [#39440]

Pearce, Michael. 2004. The marketization of discourse about education in UK general election manifestos. Text 24 (2) : 245–265.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

critical discourse analysis | education | election manifesto

Place, Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper investigates the discursive dimension of the marketization of education in the Uk, via a critical discourse analysis of three election manifestos: the Labour and Conservative manifestos from the 1987 election, and the Labour 1997 manifesto.