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Orozco, Richard A. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2012
The article discusses a legislation that would effectively terminate Mexican American Studies programs in k-12 was passed in Arizona in 2010. In this article, the author traces how this legislation drew from discourses of anti-Americanism and wickedness initiated by the state's superintendent of public instruction against Mexican American Studies…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mexican Americans, Discourse Analysis, Hispanic American Culture
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Newell, Sara E. – Western Journal of Speech Communication, 1984
Describes how the talk of legislative policy makers in public forums builds a system of justification for their actions. Uses observations from a case study of the Utah State Legislature and develops a sociopragmatic perspective of argument fields. (PD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Debate, Discourse Analysis