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Legitimation in discourse and communication
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The article sets out a framework for analysing the way discourses construct legitimation for social practices in public communication as well as in everyday interaction. Four key categories of legitimation are distinguished: 1) ‘authorization’, legitimation by reference to the authority of tradition, custom and law, and of persons in whom institutional authority is vested; 2) ‘moral evaluation’, legitimation by reference to discourses of value; 3) rationalization, legitimation by reference to the goals and uses of institutionalized social action, and to the social knowledges that endow them with cognitive validity; and 4) mythopoesis, legitimation conveyed through narratives whose outcomes reward legitimate actions and punish non-legitimate actions. Examples are drawn from texts legitimating or de-legitimating compulsory education, including children’s books, brochures for parents, teacher training texts, and media texts.
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- Authors
- Van Leeuwen, T.
- Venue
- Discourse & Communication
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2007-02
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 91-112
- ISSN
- 1750-4813 (ISSN-L)
- 1750-4821
- OpenAlex
- W2121384586
- Cited by
- 1,237
- References
- 19
- FWCI
- 58.77
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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