RFG Talk: LISO’s John J. Gumperz Memorial Lecture
1205 Education Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, UCSB, Santa BarbaraDiscursive Strategies of Dominance: How Publics Are Homogenized Scholars have been noting for many years the increasingly polyphonous, fractured and heterogeneous discourses that have gained public visibility in this era of the internet, “superdiversity” and “globalization.” Yet, if we look around the world, we see many recent processes – equally remarkable – that move in a different direction: There is a closing down and homogenization of mass mediated political talk. Right wing parties in power ...