1st Edition
Analyzing Public Discourse Discourse Analysis in the Making of Public Policy
By Ron Scollon
Copyright 2008
208 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
Analyzing Public Discourse demonstrates the use of discourse analysis to provide testimony in public policy consultations: from environmental impact statements to changes in laws and policies.
Scollon asserts that it is in the best interest of democratic public discourse for all participants in the process to be working with a common discursive framework. He puts forward a strategy by which... Read more
1. Alaskan Oil, Scottish Scallops and German Paints: Public Consultative Discourse Analysis 2. Action in Critical Discourse Analysis 3. The Representation of Action: Summarization, Framing and Synchronisation 4. When Discourses Collide: Politics, Law, Science and Government in the Sale of Oil and Gas leases 5. Document Types: Who Says So? Who do they think I am? 6. Modes and Modality 7. Documents to Mediate Action
Biography
Ron Scollon
