Discourse Analysis as an Approach to Categorizing the Domain of Public Policy: The Case of Brazilian E-Government

Abstract

Taking the discourse as our empirical object of study, we used the theoretical foundations of the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to justify the way an ontology is built to represent the area identified as a public policy, in this case, the Brazilian Electronic Government Program. Our objective is to contribute to the fields of Information Science and Computer Science, and present the possibilities for knowledge representation and organization of knowledge by Ontology construction. To support the construction of an ontology for Brazilian E-Government, as a public policy, we evaluate the proposed Controlled Vocabulary of E-Government VCGE (2011).