POLITICAL TALK: THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF A POLICY ARGUMENT*

Michael H. Agar

Review of Policy Research, 1983, vol. 2, issue 4, 601-614

Abstract: Policy and the processes that go into i t s formulation and implementation are constituted by language. In this article, a linguistic and ethnographic approach to the study of “themes” is applied to the transcripts of some oral arguments by independent truckers at the Interstate Commerce Commission. The results show a portion of the underlying logic of the argument, a logic whose structure was minimally affected by the eventual policy decision.

Date: 1983
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