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 |
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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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