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Critical policy discourse analysis in higher education.

  • Jane Mulderrig Jane Mulderrig University of Sheffield, School of English
  • https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264093.013.1702
  • Published online: 30 January 2024

Critical Policy Discourse Analysis (CPDA) is a method for critically investigating the linguistic mechanisms by which education policy is constituted and contested in specific contexts. It involves a systematic methodology for textual and contextual analysis, designed to explore historically specific policy problems and their ideological significance. The analytical procedures involved in this approach are illustrated by means of a case study examining the introduction of quality-assurance governance practices and market-oriented reforms to U.K. higher education (HE). Specifically, the “Teaching Excellence Framework,” introduced in 2017, has two core purposes: to audit and rank universities by teaching quality and to open up the university market to private (for-profit) providers. The two main government documents which introduced this policy are examined in order to explore the prominent themes within this policy, as well as the linguistic strategies that contribute to its ideological framing. A critical investigation of the language through which this policy was introduced and legitimated reveals the neoliberal principles which underpin it and demonstrates how it operates as a dehumanizing technique of calculation and surveillance, while subordinating universities’ societal role to the needs of the economy. Corpus-aided methods are combined with a framework for close textual analysis of policy data, focussing on presuppositions, evaluation, modality and pronouns. The analysis shows the systematic linguistic processes by which student-consumer subjectivities are constructed and the rhetoric of “choice” and “value for money” is (mis)represented as the key to greater access and social mobility for students. This policy takes a significant step toward recasting educational relations in extrinsic, exchange-value terms, which are deeply damaging to universities’ original purpose of building communities of critical reflection, intellectual freedoms, and trust.

  • Critical Policy Discourse Analysis
  • corpus-aided analysis
  • Teaching Excellence Framework
  • neoliberalism
  • U.K. higher education policy

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Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond

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  • Theresa Catalano 0 ,
  • Linda R. Waugh 1

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Departments of French, English, Linguistics, Anthropology; Language, Reading and Culture; and Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

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  • Explores the connection of Critical Discourse Analysis to pragmatics
  • Clarifies what Critical Discourse Analysis is from a practical viewpoint, through salient examples of what it does, and offers a wealth of suggestions for further reading

Part of the book series: Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology (PEPRPHPS, volume 26)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front matter, introduction to critical discourse analysis (cda), critical discourse studies (cds), and beyond.

  • Theresa Catalano, Linda R. Waugh

Precursors to CDA and Important Foundational Concepts

Symposium in amsterdam, formation of cda, work of the founders, the main approaches to cda/cds, critiques of cda/cds and responses, cda/cds and its interdisciplinary connections, what cda/cds scholars are doing to make a difference in the world, back matter.

  • Cognitive linguistics
  • Corpus studies
  • Critical discourse analysis
  • Media and cultural studies
  • Positive discourse analysis

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This book explores the problem-oriented interdisciplinary research movement comprised of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) for scholars, teachers, and students from many backgrounds. Beginning with a Preface by renowned CDA/CDS scholar Ruth Wodak, it introduces CDA/CDS through examples of what its research looks like, delineates various precursors to CDA/CDS and important foundational concepts and theories, and traces its development from its early years until it became established. After the relationship between CDA and CDS is discussed, seven commonly cited approaches to CDA/CDS are outlined, including their connections and differences, their origins and development, major and associated scholars, research focus(es), and central concepts and distinguishing features.  After a summary of critiques of CDA/CDS and responses by CDA/CDS scholars, the book provides an overview of its salient connections to other interdisciplinary areas of scholarship such as critical applied linguistics, education, anthropology/ ethnography, sociolinguistics, gender studies, queer linguistics, pragmatics and ecolinguistics. The final chapter describes how scholars use their knowledge of CDA/CDS to make a difference in the world.

Authors and Affiliations

Theresa Catalano

Linda R. Waugh

About the authors

Theresa Catalano is Associate Professor in Second Language Education/ Applied Linguistics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and also serves as coordinator of the dual language endorsement and world language secondary education programs. Her research focuses on education and migration, language teacher education, multimodal critical discourse studies, and cognitive linguistics. She has published across a wide variety of journals including Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, Bilingual Research Journal, Visual Communication, Critical Discourse Studies , Journal of Language and Politics , Social Semiotics , and Discourse & Society . Her second book, Talking about Global Migration (Multilingual Matters, 2016) was nominated for two national book awards.

Linda R. Waugh is Professor Emerita of French, English, Linguistics, Anthropology, and Language, Reading and Culture, and the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition andTeaching at the University of Arizona, where she went in 2000 after teaching at Cornell University (starting in 1971).  She has (co-)authored many journal articles and book chapters, in addition to 12 books and monographs. She is finishing a co-edited book ( Cambridge History of Linguistics ) with a co-authored chapter on 20th century linguistics.  She has many research interests, including French linguistics, phonology, semiotics, semantics, pragmatics, and (multimodal critical) discourse analysis/studies.

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Book Title : Critical Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Studies and Beyond

Authors : Theresa Catalano, Linda R. Waugh

Series Title : Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology

DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49379-0

Publisher : Springer Cham

eBook Packages : Religion and Philosophy , Philosophy and Religion (R0)

Copyright Information : Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

Hardcover ISBN : 978-3-030-49377-6 Published: 29 September 2020

eBook ISBN : 978-3-030-49379-0 Published: 28 September 2020

Series ISSN : 2214-3807

Series E-ISSN : 2214-3815

Edition Number : 1

Number of Pages : XXV, 406

Number of Illustrations : 1 b/w illustrations

Topics : Pragmatics , Philosophy of Language , Applied Linguistics , Sociolinguistics , Language Education

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