In this section I perform a policy analysis on the key text, using
a Discourse Analysis Toolbox. In the next section I look in greater
depth at some sub-topics, and the following sections develop the
analysis deeper.
In the Government and Policy pages, I have
selected the Aims and Objectives of DEFRA for analysis. This is
the key UK food policy text, and I have looked at the part that
this text plays in the work of the Department
A more full description of the Discourse Analysis Toolbox can be
found at the companion Toolbox
site. The full toolbox contains 15 sets of tools, which, if
applied systematically, can generate a large mass of interesting
data about the text(s) chosen. My particular interest with the Toolbox
is to try and work out "what the author really thinks".
I have copied over the 6 most interesting pages from the Toolbox
site, and I have given an overview of the full study in the following
sections. [the full Toolbox would be needed for full understanding
of the text, but this would be a very lengthy process. You can commission
a study if you are interested in the full toolbox ]
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