Critical discourse analysis

The many discourses that people utilize are amazing, discourses reflect who a person is and define their characteristics. People can have so many discourses that people can even keep track of and it's amazing how they can vary from person to person. Now i’m going to start describing my discourses that I mainly use, and describe how they define me as a person. To begin, the first and main discourse is the Friend Discourse. The way that I speak with my friends is interesting because I use a…

from his pure innocent heart. Oliver begs Mr. Bumble with 6 times of “Sir” in tears. This part touches me a lot. I always believe that only when a person is in the most emergent situation will he show his original look. For Oliver, this is really a critical moment for his life and what he does is to promise to be better and beg for Mr. Bumble‟s pity believing that Mr. Bumble still has some conscience. What an innocent and polite boy! By contrast, Jack Dawkins, a boy working for Fagin is…

Brown and Levinson created politeness theory, which is situated in the interpretivist paradigm (Goldsmith & Normand, 2015, p. 267). This theory is intended to explore the various ways language is used in certain social contexts, as well as how communication is affected by those word choices. The creators were curious why in some situations and relationships, people tend to be very blunt, while in others people tend to take a less direct approach. Politeness theory is based on Goffman’s concept…

In“Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction,” James Paul Gee introduces his readers to the concept of a Discourse with a capital D. Discourses with a capital D according to Gee are “saying (writing)-doing-being-valuing, believing combinations” (6). They are important “combinations”(6). This is for the reason that “identity kits” can help someone see who you are, and they allow you to gain entrance into other Discourses such as a Dominant Secondary Discourse by having the proper make…

Introduction This essay will be discussing Multimodal discourse analysis looking at Gunther Kress’s article on discourse analysis and also looking at other theories of multimodality that can help explain how meaning making is achieved and use relevant examples as part of the discussion. Multimodal discourse analysis “choice leads to selection” Multimodal discourse analysis is the study of language not only through text and speech but mixed together with other tools or modes such as, pictures…

Introduction: A discourse is a system of socially constructed knowledge about an aspect of reality (Foucault 1977; Hall 1997; van Leeuwen 2005). The #DontClipTheirWings campaign is concerned with the discourse surrounding gender-differentiated parenting: the act of treating one’s children differently just because of their gender (Raley and Bianchi 2006). Although the dominant discourse has evolved significantly, gender-differentiated parenting remains to be a prevalent issue. The unequal…

The power of multilingual writers can convince a reader to have a different view of academic discourse. The alternative discourse helps the writers to recognize the variety of roles in the academic contexts that are limited to monolingual writers. Multilingual writers are given a variety of benefits like job opportunities and self confidence. Nowadays, multilingual speakers have a higher chance of getting a job than monolingual speakers. The more languages we speak, the high the chances are to…

data for the analysis was extracted from the transcripts of group therapy sessions in a prison-based Sex Offender Treatment Program (SOTP) in Britain between 1995 and 1996. The analysis suggested that his discourse is built on two main practical ideologies in recasting his version of the incident. The use of the “practical ideologies” was frequently stimulated through popular rape myths, playing a role in reproducing the story of the incident into something ambiguous. The analysis reveals that…

his final conclusion. Words such as discourse and subdiscourse are introduced by Gee who then goes on to explain them in great detail. Gee even goes so far as to provide five basic rules and/or guidelines for these discourses. Next Gee presents us with the theory of knowledge that is “Acquired” versus…

Languages can determine whether one is actually speaking their proper discourse within their language. This can be seen in Jordan’s text, when she is talking about a book that she assigned to her students to read for homework. The students were counterattacking the book about how it was written, and the language in which the…