Dannreuther, CEA and Perren, L (2013) The entrepreneurial subject as a political signifier: corpus analysis of forty years of Hansard. International Small Business Journal, 31 (6). 603 - 628. ISSN 0266-2426
Abstract
This article explores the political signification of the term entrepreneur in UK parliamentary debates over the past forty years. Following a review of the literature, a need is identified to understand the construction of the entrepreneur in political discourse. Concern here is not with the prosaic cataloguing of policies or definitions, but with exploring shifts in the discursive constructs of the entrepreneur that underlie political practice. To explore these constructions a large longitudinal dataset is systematically condensed, while maintaining sensitivity to the nuances of meaning. A corpus-based linguistics approach is undertaken. This combines the computational analysis of significant collocates, that is important words (concepts) that surround the term entrepreneur, with the richness of qualitative analysis. Patterns of reification, agency and structure are identified in the portrayed entrepreneurial constructs. The philosophical and practical implications of these patterns are discussed and proposals are made for using corpus techniques in international comparative analyses.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2014 11:15 |
Last Modified: | 28 Mar 2018 21:46 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0266242612441809 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0266242612441809 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:75449 |