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Title Legitimizing the interventions recommended in "European Research Area Policy Agenda 2022-2024"
ID_Doc 61869
Authors Molek-Kozakowska, K
Title Legitimizing the interventions recommended in "European Research Area Policy Agenda 2022-2024"
Year 2024
Published
DOI 10.1075/jlp.23043.mol
Abstract The EU Directorate General for Research and Innovation's "European Research Area Policy Agenda: Overview of Actions for the Period 2022-2024" outlines twenty actions to boost research excellence, investment and reform, coordination and support, or green and digital transformation of the academia, in an attempt to create a truly common "European knowledge market." Filled with strategic planning jargon, the policy specifies the recommended interventions for years to come and with billions of Euros of funding to follow. Using a qualitative critical discourse approach, this study explores policy-making from a linguistic perspective to capture the characteristics of current EU R&I discourse. Language choices have a constitutive role in policy papers due to the discursive capacity for legitimization and subsequent persuasion. The analysis focuses on the persuasive presuppositions induced by certain lexico-grammatical choices, including evaluative and rhetorical devices, and shows how the ERA policy fosters acceptance of a European vision of R&I values.
Author Keywords presupposition; legitimization; persuasion; critical policy analysis; ERA policy agenda
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Social Science Citation Index (SSCI); Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)
EID WOS:001296217100001
WoS Category Linguistics; Language & Linguistics
Research Area Linguistics
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