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Liasidou, Anastasia – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2016
This article examines the symbolic power of language to construct and convey disabling discourses, albeit ample rhetoric, on the need to reinstate and safeguard disabled people's human rights and entitlements. The role of language and its discursive ramifications need to be explored and problematized in the light of legal mandates and…
Descriptors: Disabilities, International Law, Civil Rights, Case Studies
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Koehne, Norma – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2006
This paper looks at the power of discourses to speak subjects into being, particularly the power that academic and other discourses have had to develop subject positions for international students and the ways in which students have accepted and rejected these ways of talking about them. The paper contrasts these ways of speaking with what the…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Identification, Self Disclosure (Individuals), English