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Most of this site deals with the toolbox for Discourse and Text
analysis that I have developed, and the theoretical background for
this. However, the toolbox is only one aspect of a large-scale study
of texts
In some cases, a study of a text may be all that is required, but
at other times a more wide-ranging study of the context might be
needed, and I have other tools and techniques at my disposal for
this:-
I have carried
out a wide-ranging
internet survey of some of the organisations and cultural factors
at work in the wider 'food arena', and I have described this as
a Context Analysis.
I have used
an "Aims and Objectives" sample text. This policy is meant
to apply to the whole country, but it should not be forgotten it
can belooked at from the internal context of the Ministry, the Government,
Parliament and the Electoral system. This is a brief Organisational
Analysis of the policy, and this analysis could be extended
in some circumstances. An example of
this is here.
Also, the text
can be seen as part of a wide range of discourses about food and
food production, and I have examined the Interplay between
Discourse and Food Policy. I have begun this for some
subtopics here
Finally, I have
also looked at UK food policy using a Dispositive Analysis
- the dispositive being an idea for an overarching and all-inclusive
3-way system of knowledge - knowledge in discourse, knowledge in
events and decisions, and knowledges contained in designs and other
objects. An example of this triangulation is
given here
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