From National Policy to Individual Practice: A Critical Discourse Analysis on Three Levels

Abstract

Enlightened by critical discourse analysis (CDA) perspective and intertextuality analysis, this article puts forward Institutional logic-Cognition-Discourse-Practice Approach as a framework for the study of connection and transformation process involved in multi-level-subjects’ policy discourse, and explains how national policy be implemented across multiple levels. To do this, a case analysis of the agricultural entrepreneurship in Guangdong Province was conducted. Policy discourse from three levels were collected as analysis data. By probing the traces of previous text in subsequent text, this article explains how intertextuality is formed across three levels of subjects.