Saint Lucia's National Language Policy of 2018: A Discourse analysis

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Abstract

In 2018, the Saint Lucia's Ministry of Education approved the St. Lucia National Language Policy. The text prescribes a biliteracy program for teaching English and Kwéyòl, a Caribbean Creole language emerged within the context of slavery and colonial times. This paper presents the results of a Discourse analysis that explores what Discourses about language structured the policy text. Results suggest three matrices of Discourses, each shape with logics emerging from particular loci of enunciations.

Author

• Hector Rafael Castrillon-Costa, University of Texas - San Antonio