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Policy Narratives across Two Languages: A Comparative Study using the Narrative Policy Framework

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The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) focuses on the role of narratives, drawing from a rich scholarship in narrative, language, and culture. Despite the understanding that narratives are constructions of language and that narrative construction differs across languages, NPF studies have not focused on policy narratives in languages other than English. Language characteristics of narratives are important to assess the stability of policy narratives when there are multiple dominant languages in a political system. This study investigates the use of narrative elements in policy narratives in agricultural biotechnology policy in India across Hindi and English media coverage to examine the NPF assumption that narratives have generalizable narrative elements irrespective of variation in linguistic context and, specifically, tests the transportability of narrative elements. Findings validate the transportability of narrative elements in Hindi narratives, indicate variation in the use of narrative elements over time, and have implications for applying NPF across languages. 两种语言之间的政策叙事:用叙事政策框架进行比较分析 叙事政策框架(NPF)聚焦于不同叙事产生的作用,这些叙事源于研究叙事、语言和文化的大量学术文献。尽管有观点认为,叙事是语言的建构,叙事结构因语言差异而有所不同,但NPF相关研究还未聚焦于除英语之外的,用其他语言进行描述的政策叙事。当一个政策系统存在多种主导语言时,叙事语言特征对评估政策叙述的稳定性而言尤为重要。本文调查了针对印度印地语和英语媒体对农业生物技术中的政策叙事进行报道时所用的叙事元素,以检验有关NPF的假设——即尽管语言背景存在差异,也总存在一般化的叙事元素。本文具体检验了叙事元素的可移植性。研究结果证实了印地语叙事中所用叙事元素的可移植性,表明了随时间推移使用叙事元素产生的差异,同时为NPF应用于不同语言提供了启示。 Narrativas de políticas en dos idiomas: un estudio comparativo utilizando el marco de políticas narrativas El marco de política narrativa (NPF) se centra en el papel de las narrativas, basándose en un rico cuerpo de investigación en narrativa, lenguaje y cultura. A pesar de que se entiende que las narraciones son construcciones del lenguaje y que la construcción de las narrativas difiere entre las diferentes lenguas, los estudios de NPF no se han centrado en las narrativas de políticas en otros idiomas además del inglés. Las características del lenguaje de las narraciones son importantes para evaluar la estabilidad de las narrativas de políticas cuando existen múltiples idiomas dominantes en un sistema político. Este estudio investiga el uso de elementos narrativos en las narrativas de políticas en la política de biotecnología agrícola en la India a través de la cobertura de los medios de comunicación en hindi e inglés para examinar el supuesto de NPF de que las narrativas tienen elementos narrativos generalizables independientemente de la variación en el contexto lingüístico y, específicamente, prueba la transportabilidad de los elementos narrativos. Los hallazgos validan la transportabilidad de los elementos narrativos en las narraciones hindi, indican una variación en el uso de los elementos narrativos a lo largo del tiempo y tienen implicaciones para la aplicación de NPF en todos los idiomas.

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  • Juhi Huda, 2019. "Policy Narratives across Two Languages: A Comparative Study using the Narrative Policy Framework," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 36(4), pages 523-546, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:36:y:2019:i:4:p:523-546
    DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12344
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    1. Yuhao Ba & Kathryn Schwaeble & Thomas Birkland, 2022. "The United States in Chinese environmental policy narratives: Is there a trump effect?," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 39(6), pages 708-729, November.

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