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• Higher education as a marketable product. A critical discourse analysis of universities’ persuasive strategies to recruit students 

  Goñi Guembe, Paula (2014)

  The new capitalist market economy is invading most of the spheres in our society and education is no exception. This paper attempts to begin to explore the impact of this social change on higher education through the ...

• Plurality of opinion, scientific discourse and pseudoscience: an in depth analysis of the Séralini et al. study claiming that Roundup™ Ready corn or the herbicide Roundup™ cause cancer in rats 

  Arjó Pont, Gemma; Portero Otín, Manuel; Piñol Felis, Carme; Viñas Salas, Joan; Matias-Guiu, Xavier; Capell Capell, Teresa; Bartholomaeus, Andrew; Parrot, Wayne; Christou, Paul (Springer Verlag, 2013)

  A recent paper published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology presents the results of a long-term toxicity study related to a widely-used commercial herbicide (RoundupTM) and a Rounduptolerant genetically modified ...

• Bringing discourse analysis into the language classroom 

  Cots Caimons, Josep Maria (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1996)

  The aim of this article is to argue in favour of adopting the point of view of discourse analysis in order to describe and explain how language is actually used. After pointing out that discourse should not be considered ...