Policy Discourse Techniques of Interpretation and Criticism to Create Theoretical Arguments
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The study of policy discourse is prevalent in the European Union, the United States, Russia, Singapore, China, and India. It covers foreign policy, education, climate change, and trade or even the relationship between poverty and education. The effectiveness of the study of policy discourses can generate new understandings under human-made social phenomena through language, text, symbols and dialogue. This makes the analysis reflect the view of the lack of potential of the policy and raise awareness of the influence groups or policy stakeholders, especially the minority marginalized or minority. Policy discourse analysis, thus, plays a role as a tool of interpretation and criticism, enabling it to produce a new set of knowledge that is weighted enough to argue against biased theories. This article therefore presents techniques for discourse analysis of policies and procedures. including case studies of policy discourses, such as education issues, a framework for analyzing, and using data for analyzing policy discourses in the 21st century.
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