Publications

Publication details [#56493]

Breeze, Ruth. 2012. Legitimation in corporate discourse: Oil corporations after Deepwater Horizon. Discourse & Society 23 (1) : 3–18.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

business language | discourse strategy | ideology | justifying | opinion

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores the legitimation strategies employed in oil industry corporate discourses after the 2010 Mexican Gulf catastrophe, which operate on an ideological level to substantiate large corporations' workings within the complex contemporary capitalist setting.