The discourse of the illegal immigration debate: A case study in the politics of representation

Discourse and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 249-270

  Mehan, Hugh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse strategies; Elite discourse; Politics of representation; Proposition 187

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031116503     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926597008002006     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1994) Voter Pamphlet. Sacramento: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
2. Austin, J.L. (1962) Philosophical Papers. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
3. Bakhtin, M.M. (1981) The Dialogic Imagination. Austin: University of Texas Press.
4. Bellah, R., Madsen, R., Sullivan, W.M., Swidler, A. and Tipton, S.M. (1985) Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life. Berkeley: University of California Press.
5. Calavita, K. (1996) 'The New Politics of Immigration: "Balanced Budget Conservatism" and the Symbolism of Proposition 187'. Social Problems 43(3): 284-305.
6. California Legislative Analyst (1994) 'Proposition 187: Illegal Aliens: Ineligibility for Public Services: Verification and Reporting Initiative Statute'. Sacramento: Office of the Legislative Analyst, 21 July.
7. Chock, P.P. (1990) 'Illegal Aliens and Opportunity: Myth Making in Congressional Testimony'. American Ethnologist 17(2): 279-94.
8. Conley, J.M. & O'Barr, W.M. (1990) Rules versus Relationships. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
9. Edelman, M. (1964) The Symbolic Uses of Politics. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
10. Erickson, F. and Schultz, J. (1982) The Counselor as Gatekeeper. New York: Academic Press.
11. Fisher, S. and Todd, A. (1996) Discourse and Institutional Authority: Medicine, Education and Law. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
12. Foucault, M. (1972) The Archeology of Knowledge and the Discourse on Language. New York: Pantheon.
13. Garfinkel, H. (1967) Studies in Ethnomethodology. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
14. Gingrich, N. (1995) To Renew America. New York: HarperCollins.
15. Goffman, E. (1961) Encounters. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill.
16. Gumperz, J.J. (1983) Discourse Strategies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
17. Havel, V. (1990) 'Words on Words: Acceptance Speech Upon Presentation of the Peace Prize of the German Booksellers Association'. New York Review of Books, 18 January, 5-8.
18. Herrnstein R. and Murray, C. (1995) The Bell Curve. The York: Basic Books.
19. Holquist, M. (1984) 'The Politics of Representation', Quarterly Newsletter of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition 5: 2-9.
20. Irvine, J.T. (1990) 'Registering Affect', in C.A. Lutz and L. Abu-Lughod (eds) Language and the Politics of Emotion, pp. 126-61. New York: Cambridge University Press.
21. Johnson, D.M. (1994) 'Who is We: Constructing Communities in US-Mexico Border Discourse', Discourse & Society 5(2): 207-31.
22. King, P. (1994) 'A Roll Call of Second Opinions', Los Angeles Times, 26 October, A3.
23. Kristiva, J. (1991) Strangers to Ourselves. New York: Columbia University Press.
24. Los Angeles Times (1994) 'Editorial', 10 August, B4.
25. Lukes, S. (1973) Individualism. New York: Harper & Row.
26. Macias, J. (1996) 'Resurgence of Ethnic Nationalism in California and Germany', Anthropology & Education Quarterly 27(2): 232-52.
27. Mahoney, R. (1994) ' . . . For You Were Once Strangers . . .'. Los Angeles, CA: Office of the Archbishop.
28. MALDEF (1995) 'Update on Litigation Challenging Proposition 187', Los Angeles, CA: Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund.
29. Mehan, H., Hertweck, A. and Meihls, J.L. (1986) Handicapping the Handicapped: Decision Making in Students' Educational Careers. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
30. Mehan, H., Nathanson, C.E. and Skelly, J.M. (1990) 'Nuclear Discourse in the 1980s: The Unraveling Conventions of the Cold War', Discourse & Society 1(2): 133-65.
31. Mishler, E. (1984) The Discourse of Medicine: Dialectics of Medical Interviews. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
32. Nathanson, C.E. (1987) 'The Social Construction of the Soviet Threat', Alternatives 13: 443-83.
33. Peters, T. (1994) Voter Pamphlet. San Francisco: Association of Bay Area Health Officials.
34. Pollner, M. (1987) Mundane Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
35. Riley, Richard W. (1994) Letter to Gloria Molina, Supervisor First District, County of Los Angeles, 8 July. Washington, DC: United States Department of Education.
36. Sacramento Bee (1994) 'Editorial', 13 June, B1.
37. San Diego Union Tribune (1994) 'Editorial', (19 June): B8.
38. Senate Office of Research (1994) Proposition 187: Political and Legal Implications. Sacramento: Senate Office of Research.
39. Shapiro, M. (1988) The Politics of Representation. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
40. Sennett, R. (1977) The Fall of Public Man. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
41. Suárez-Orozco, M. (1995) 'The Need for Strangers: Proposition 187 and the Immigration Malaise', in Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco (eds) Transformations, Family Life and Achievement Motivation Among Latino Adolescents. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
42. Szemere, A. (1996) 'A Rock Politics: Music and Social Change in Hungary', unpublished PhD thesis. La Jolla, CA: UCSD.
43. Tamberg, T. (1994) 'Letters to the Editor', The Tidings 21 September, p. 7.
44. Tannen, D. (1989) Talking Voices. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
45. Taxpapers Against 187 (1994) Vote No on Proposition 187 [Voter Information Pamphlet]. Burlingame and Los Angeles, CA: Taxpayers Against 187.
46. Urban, G. (1988) 'The Pronominal Pragmatics of Nuclear War Discourse', Multilingua 1 (1/2): 67-93.
47. Van Dijk, T.A. (1993) Elite Discourse and Racism. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
48. Voloshinov, V.N. (1986) Marxism and The Philosophy of Language. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
49. Wallace, A. (1994) 'Brown Attacks Wilson on Illegal Immigration', Los Angeles Times, 26 October, A3.
50. Wertsch, J. (1987) 'Modes of Discourse in the Nuclear Arms Debate', Current Research on Peace and Violence 10(2/3): 102-12.
51. Wilson, P. (1994) 'Closing the Door', Spectrum (Winter): 14-15.
52. Wittgenstein, L. (1951) Philosophical Investigations. London: Blackwell.
53. Woolard, K.A. (1989) 'Sentences in the Language Prison: The Rhetorical Structuring of an American Language Debate', American Ethnologist 16(2): 268-78.