Constructions of choice in U.S. education policy discourse, 1994–2020: a corpus-assisted analysis.
This study uses corpus-assisted discourse analysis to investigate the way U.S. secretaries of education have discursively constructed the topic of school choice in their public speeches over the course of 27 years, spanning four presidential administrations (1994–2020). Collocation and concordance a...
| Publicado en: | Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education Vol. 46; no. 5; pp. 659 - 675 |
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