Discourse analysis

Gabler James C. Scott’s ‘Domination and the Arts of Resistance’ explores the discourse of domination and resistance, including the tension between the publicly exhibited dominant discourse, termed a “public transcript,” and the four types of political discourse prevalent among subordinate groups. The four types of discourse are self-image based discourse, the hidden transcript, in-between discourse, and ruptured discourse. For the purpose of this essay, focus is primarily restricted to…

Neil Postman compared the public discourse between before and after telegraph invention, he suggested the telegraph altered the very nature of social and personal discourse in American culture."The telegraph made a three-pronged attack on typography 's definition of discourse, introducing on a large scale irrelevance, impotence, and in coherence.”Said in The Peek-a-Boo World chapter. The author believed modern technology from telegraph to television, makes discourse broken, disconnected, and…

to Scotland, used as a “model for similar systems of police repression in English cities, most notably in Manchester and Leeds as well as in Edinburgh and other Scottish towns.” largely accepted that in practice the morality of Scotland’s social discourse fell short of their…

have various discourses. Specifically, it is said that the primary discourse, learned through our family, is the root of these conflicts. It becomes necessary to construct a primary new dominant discourse in order to resolve such conflicts. In order to achieve this aim, he uses three moves: compare and contrast, references to other works, and the use of revealing identity through specific pronouns. By comparing and contrasting, Williams is able to expand upon how a different discourse can affect…

Amusing Ourselves to Death, explains how television creates communication by redefining public discourse. Public discourse is the forms of conversation dealing with political, religious, or commercial. Throughout the book, Neil Postman explains how society has become unknowledgeable about the changes because of being too consumed in its epistemology. Postman starts the book by showing historical facts in the first part of the book and describes the effects of media in American life throughout…

The topic of discourse analysis has been the primary subject in Module One since the beginning of the semester. Throughout this module, we’ve learned what discourse analysis is, the different types of discourse analysis, and why it’s an important part of rhetoric and writing. Having read #heavymeta chapters “What is Discourse Analysis?” and “Multimodal Discourse Analysis”, written by authors James Paul Gee and Gunther Kress, respectively, it’s about time we’ve applied our newfound knowledge of…

1. Introduction This aim of this study is to conduct an analysis of the linguistic features that are characteristic of police statement with women reporting rape cases. This study particularly focuses on the ways in which the victims are linguistically characterized by police officers who are in charge of conducting the victim’s initial complaints. For the analysis, the Critical Discourse Analysis approach was used in the determination of the characteristics of language used by the law…

To answer my research question I will undertake a qualitative discourse analysis of news media reports of harassment of women in Alberta politics. This project will be guided by the aims of feminist critical discourse analysis, which aims “to examine how power and dominance are discursively produced and/or resisted in a variety of ways through textual representations of gendered social practices, and through interactional strategies of talk” (Lazar 2004). These aims are reflected directly in my…

by the creator and decoded by audiences and the other is a more complex model. Communication models assist in understanding how media content is created by someone and how it is consumed by someone else. Discourse analysis which focuses on the language of content and genre or media form analysis that emphasises…

so forth. The ways in which the meaning-makers choose to convey meaning through discourse and texts is not random – It involves choice and selection. Gunther Kress, a professor of semiotics, suggests that language is not the only channel that can be used for meaning-making. This essay discusses the claim ‘choice leads to selection’ by drawing on the insights from Gunther Kress’ article ‘Multimodal Discourse Analysis’ and Multimodal Theory. This essay explains how meaning-making is achieved in…