[Commlist] New book: Critical Policy Discourse Analysis

We are very pleased to announce the publication of a new book ‘Critical 
Policy Discourse Analysis’. This provides a series of contemporary and 
international policy case studies analysed through discursive 
methodological approaches in the traditions of critical discourse 
analysis, social semiotics, and discourse theory. This is the first 
volume that connects this discursive methodology systematically to the 
field of critical policy analysis and will therefore be an essential 
book for researchers who wish to include a discursive analysis in their 
critical policy research.

Further details, as well as discount voucher, can be found on the 
publisher’s website here: 
https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/critical-policy-discourse-analysis

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Critical Policy Discourse Analysis
Advances in Critical Policy Studies series
Edited by Nicolina Montesano Montessori, Associate Professor, Research 
Centre for Learning and Innovation, HU University of Applied Sciences 
Utrecht, the Netherlands, Michael Farrelly, Lecturer in English 
Language, Department of English, Creative Writing and American Studies, 
University of Hull and Jane Mulderrig, Senior Lecturer in Applied 
Linguistics, School of English, University of Sheffield, UK
This book provides a series of contemporary and international policy 
case studies analysed through discursive methodological approaches in 
the traditions of critical discourse analysis, social semiotics and 
discourse theory. This is the first volume that connects this discursive 
methodology systematically to the field of critical policy analysis and 
will therefore be an essential book for researchers who wish to include 
a discursive analysis in their critical policy research.


More Information
Critical Policy Discourse Analysis bridges the literature on critical 
discourse analysis (CDA) and critical policy analysis to provide a 
practical guide on how to combine these major approaches to critical 
social science. The volume gives a clear introduction to concepts and 
analytical procedures for critical policy discourse analysis. Utilising 
ten international case studies, the authors explain and critically 
reflect upon the methods and theories that they have used to 
successfully integrate CDA with critical policy studies across a diverse 
range of policy issues.

Case studies are used to explore issues in economics, health, education, 
crisis management, the environment, language and energy policy. 
Analysing these through discursive methodological approaches in the 
traditions of CDA, social semiotics and discourse theory, this book 
connects this discursive methodology systematically to the field of 
critical policy studies.

This is an essential read for researchers wishing to practically combine 
methods of CDA with critical policy studies. It provides key insights 
for politics scholars looking to gain a more in-depth understanding of 
the impact and analysis of discourse.

Contents:

1 Introducing critical policy discourse analysis 1
Jane Mulderrig, Nicolina Montesano Montessori and Michael Farrelly
2 Text oriented discourse analysis: an analysis of a struggle for 
hegemony in Mexico 23
Nicolina Montesano Montessori
3 Analysing orders of discourse of neoliberal rule: health ‘nudges’ and 
the rise of psychological governance 48
Jane Mulderrig
4 The recontextualisation of higher education policy in learning and 
teaching practices: the discursive construction of community 73
Sarah Horrod
5 Advocacy NGOs in Chilean education policy-making: spaces of resistance 
or agencies fostering neoliberalism? 97
Juan Francisco Palma Carvajal
6 Business logics: co-option of media discourse by pro-market arguments 
in the case of Nokia in Finland 122
Mikko Poutanen
7 Analysing the representation of social actors: the conceptualisation 
of objects of governance 147
Michael Farrelly
8 ‘The billionaires’ boot boys start screaming’ – a critical analysis of 
economic policy discourses in reaction to Piketty’s Capital in the 
Twenty-First Century 169
Hendrik Theine and Maria Rieder
9 Historical ethnography of policy discourse: examining the genesis of a 
language strategy in Slovenia 193
Kristof Savski
10 Historical materialist policy analysis meets critical discourse 
analysis of practical argumentation: making sense of hegemony struggles 
in Italy’s crisis management 216
Daniela Caterina
11 Scaling the incommensurate: discourses of sustainability in the 
Western Isles of Scotland 242
Tom Bartlett
12 Concluding remarks on critical policy discourse analysis 264
Michael Farrelly, Nicolina Montesano Montessori and Jane Mulderrig

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