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Educational Commitments in the 2016 Election to the Scottish Parliament: An Analysis of Party Manifestos
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Humes, Walter – Scottish Educational Review, 2017
This paper examines the 2016 manifestos of the main political parties seeking election to the Scottish Parliament, with particular reference to their educational commitments on issues of equality and inclusion. The policy context is described and related to academic accounts of the policy-making process. Use is made of discourse analysis as a…
Descriptors: Elections, Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Parliamentary Procedures
The Ritualistic and Pragmatic Bases of Political Campaign Discourse
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Bennett, W. Lance – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1977
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elections, Higher Education, Political Influences
And That's the Way it Was? Television Covers the 1976 Presidential Campaign
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Swanson, David L. – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1977
Focuses on some of the most important features of world and national political campaigns as constructed by and presented in television network news primarily in the 1976 presidential campaign. (MH)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Elections, News Reporting, Political Influences
The 1980 Presidential Debates. Special Issue.
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Ritter, Kurt W., Ed. – Speaker and Gavel, 1981
Prepared by educators and researchers involved in argumentation and debate, the articles in this special journal issue are based upon the assumptions that presidential debates are important, are likely to continue, and are of unique interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of argument. The first two articles in the issue provide overviews…
Descriptors: Audiences, Communication Research, Content Analysis, Debate