This article illustrates the potential contribution of discourse analysis to the field of judgment and decision making through an empirical investigation of the adjudication of musical submissions made to a government program aimed at funding musical development. The results indicate that the process of decision making is a fundamentally social activity and that its outcomes depend on the broader discursive formation in which it takes place.
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