Recontextualizing European higher education policies: The cases of Austria and Romania

Critical Discourse Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 19-40

  Wodak, Ruth ^a   Fairclough, Norman ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Austria; Bologna declaration; Dialectic relational approach; Discourse historical approach; Discursive strategy; European Union; Fallacy; Globalization rhetoric; Higher education; Legitimation strategy; Policy paper; Recontextualization; Romania; topos

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950239800     PISSN: 17405904     EISSN: 17405912     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17405900903453922     Document Type: Article

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