Creating Rhetorical Stability in Corporate University Discourse: Discourse Technologies and Change

Written Communication

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 391-425

  Faber, Brenton ^a  

^a CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

change; corporate universities; critical discourse analysis; ideology and change; language technologies; systemic functional linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 26444437236     PISSN: 07410883     EISSN: 15528472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741088303259869     Document Type: Article

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