Suspended In Self-Spun Webs Of Significance: A Rhetorical Model Of Institutionalization And Institutionally Embedded Agency

This article employs rhetorical theory to reconceptualize institutionalization as change in argument structure. As a state, institutionalization is embodied in the structure of argument used to jus...

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