Search Results - subject:"Critical discourse analysis"

Trade-offs and disappearing acts : shifting societal discourses of diversity in Canada over three decades

Cukier, Wendy; Gagnon, Suzanne; Roach, Erin; Elmi, Mohamed - In: The international journal of human resource management 28 (2017) 7, pp. 1031-1064

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Power relationships in gender-related disclosures : exploring language in selected Fortune 500 companies' sustainability reports

Dewan Mahboob Hossain; Nik Nazli Nik Ahmad; Siti … - In: International journal of business governance & ethics : … 12 (2017) 3, pp. 262-288

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Has economics returned to being the 'dismal science'? The changing role of economic thought in German labour market reforms

Pühringer, Stephan; Griesser, Markus - 2016

As an immediate reaction to the recent financial crisis, it has been criticized that many economists are still acting as economic advisers for Ministries or the bureaucracy, although they have not been able to foresee the crisis . Academic economists still hold central positions in policy...

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Transnational Anti-Corruption as a Discourse of Power

E. Gallegos-Anda, Carlos - 2016

International treaties and domestic legislation regulating corrupt practices by public officials have appeared in a myriad of jurisdictions and legislations. However the reach and teeth of some legislation calls into question basic principles of international law and the limits that enforcing...

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The Interdisciplinarity of Critical Discourse Studies Research

Unger, Johann W. - 2016

Interdisciplinarity has been a core tenet of critical discourse studies - a group of approaches to the analysis of texts in their social contexts - since its inception, in what may be seen as a reaction against the sometimes staid and rigid disciplinary boundaries of linguistics and other...

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Start-Up Community Narratives : The Discursive Construction of Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Roundy, Philip - 2016

Entrepreneurial ecosystems are receiving growing attention. However, prior research has primarily focused on the physical characteristics and artifacts of such systems. The social construction of entrepreneurial ecosystems, and particularly the discourse involved in their creation, evolution,...

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Foucault : His Influence Over Accounting and Management Research. Building of a Map of Foucault's Approach

Rivera Vicencio, Eduardo - 2016

The aim of this work is to build a map of Foucault's approach. To achieve this objective, this work is focused on a broad revision and analysis of accounting and various publications. This work also includes a research on Foucault's work so as to identify and compare the various manifestations...

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The Discursive Construction of Co-Ethnic Migration

Zeveleva, Olga - 2016

employs a critical discourse analysis approach to texts relating to a camp where newly arriving immigrants live and undergo … between biographical sociology and critical discourse analysis, using the former as a point of departure for framing the … “locality of discourse” as a bridge between biographical sociology and critical discourse analysis. The author also makes an …

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Economics as a Polymorphic Discursive Construct : Heterodoxy and Pluralism

Pilkington, Marc - 2016

What do economists talk about? This seemingly innocent interrogation conceals a broader and innovative research programme, with the potential to renew the reflection on heterodox economics in a post-crisis scenario. The aim of this paper is to show that convergence between language for specific...

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Democratic Discourse, Taxation and Hypothecation

Barrett, Jonathan M. - 2016

This article considers taxation from a perspective of democratic discourse and uses propositions for hypothecated taxes to illustrate transparency and government accountability. First, contemporary sovereignty in relation to taxation is sketched. Michel Foucault's concept of ‘governmentality'...

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