Negotiating the government of the self : a discourse analysis of a bureaucratic text

dc.contributor.author	Horn, Charles Lawrence	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2024-08-14T17:26:06Z
dc.date.available	2024-08-14T17:26:06Z
dc.date.copyright	1995	en_US
dc.date.issued	1995
dc.degree.department	Department of Political Science
dc.degree.level	Master of Arts M.A.	en
dc.description.abstract	This thesis is an analysis of a series of negotiated agreements. The documents--'Memoranda of Understanding' between a provincial government and Aboriginal groups--are examined using techniques from socio-linguistics, discourse analysis, literary and political theory, text grammar, and semiotics. A number of relevant theoretical and methodological issues are examined, and a close reading of the selected texts is performed. The results point to the centrality of certain modes of discourse to governmental activities, and to the utility of a discursive approach to studying public policy. The analysis suggests that these texts encode and enable a range of social relations. They establish a series of discourse entities and construct relationships between them; they are locations for the construction and authorization of identity; they articulate a certain spatial practice, and they are vehicles for the development of a certain 'Aboriginal public sphere'.
dc.format.extent	213 pages
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1828/18241
dc.rights	Available to the World Wide Web	en_US
dc.title	Negotiating the government of the self : a discourse analysis of a bureaucratic text	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US

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