Participation and partnership: a critical discourse analysis ...

Conclusions
• CDA can contribute to illuminating contradiction +
dialectic between regulation and democracy:
– by analysing genres, and how contradiction + dialectic
between regulative and democratic discourses are
operationalized in mixing of and struggle over genres as
well as styles and discourses;
– by indicating how different participants intertextualize these
events differently, manifest in the recontextualization of
different genres, styles and discourses