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Policy Discourses in the EPA Programme

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Chapter 3 proffers the conceptual underpinnings of the book, together with the data collection and analytical method. In addition to a critical review of the existing literature pertaining to the EPA programme, this chapter centres on the sweeping paradigmatic changes in the field of LPP, including critical language policy, the concept of language policy as a dynamic, multi-layered process, and discursive approaches to (language) policy, all of which inform the centrality of policy discourse in the analysis.

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    For example, Barakos (2016, p. 24) argued that “an analysis of textual policy data alone no longer suffices to grasp the complex interaction of policy actors, action, and the political, economic and social structures shaping these”. Davis (1999) also pointed out the focus on discourse alone failed to address “current conditions and methods for determining or documenting language plans” (p. 70) and “the actual needs and purposes of language and literacy within speech communities” (p. 71). Indeed, the contemporary line of LPP researchers (e.g., Hornberger & Johnson, 2007; Liddicoat & Baldauf Jr., 2008; Ricento & Hornberger, 1996) state that the conventional conceptualisations such as power-structure and macro-level social systems/processes downplays the importance of agency.

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Otomo, R. (2023). Policy Discourses in the EPA Programme. In: Linking Language, Trade and Migration. Language Policy, vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33234-0_3

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