DWIGHT MACDONALD, LANGUAGE, AND THE DISCOURSE OF THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL
DWIGHT MACDONALD, LANGUAGE, AND THE DISCOURSE OF THE DOWNWARD SPIRAL

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to the notion of expert rationality, understood as one of the central epistemic regimes of the discourse of the European Union. Expert rationality is instrumental to the legitimization of EU directivity and control of centrally designed political, economic, and social solutions for an integrating Europe. From a philological perspective, however, it is worth investigating how expert rationality tends to be textually realized. Therefore, this article discusses the stylistic properties of the genre of the directive based on Directive 98/79/EC of 27 October 27 1998 on in vitro diagnostic medical devices. The analysis focuses on the identification of such stylistic resources and the strategic applications that underpin the ideology of expert rationality.

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