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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>HI Laila and Andrew</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am a public health physician (with a background
in communication and history) currently completing a doctorate in which I have
used CDA to examine speeches and press releases of Federal politicians
responsible for the health of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander peoples, and using/ used post-colonial theory (among
others) to explain the evolution of policy language, discourses, outputs
and outcomes. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Really interesting area; I too did not find
similar research, although van Dijk's work has been very helpful, as have
others collected together in
<P>Riggins, S., Ed. (1997). <U>The language and politics of exclusion: others in
discourse</U>. Thousand Oaks Ca, London, Sage
Publications</P>. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best wishes and good luck</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rosemary Aldrich</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>NHMRC Scholar</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>School of Public Health and Community
Medicine,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>University of New South Wales</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sydney</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Australia</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>61 (4) 09 712 587</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>