'For business it boils down to one thing': affective legitimation in LGBTQ diversity discourse.
This paper underscores how articulations of/about affect establish the 'how' and 'why' of what is authorized, encouraged, redeemed, or prohibited within discourses that legitimate neoliberal governmentality. Through an exemplary analysis of LGBTQ diversity discourse data, I demonstrate how instituti...
| Publicado en: | Critical Discourse Studies Vol. 21; no. 6; pp. 684 - 703 |
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