Persuasive presuppositions in OECD and EU higher education policy documents

Discourse Studies

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 341-359

  Saarinen, Taina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

EU; Higher education policy; OECD; Persuasion; Presupposition; Quality

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949095513     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445608089915     Document Type: Article

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