Policy, politics, and social control: A systemic functional linguistic analysis of EU employment policy

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Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 393-441

  Muntigl, Peter ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Employment; Genre; Policy; Politics; Register; Semiotics; Systemic functional linguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944494477     PISSN: 01654888     EISSN: 18607349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/text.2002.016     Document Type: Article

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