Discourse analysis

At face value, The Prince and the Discourses seem to have a conflicting nature, but both texts focus on the administration of a state and present textual similarities. Much of what Machiavelli writes in The Prince reinforces the Discourses, echoing both stylistically and thematically. Machiavelli uses pragmatic methods in both and accentuates the importance of historical studies. In The Prince, there is a significant amount of reference to Cesare Borgia, a man that Machiavelli admires, and he…

Machiavelli wrote his Discourses on Livy in 1517, as a response to the Roman historian Livy, in which he goes in depth about his take on republican ideals, including the guardianship of liberty, the effects of religion on the state, and the danger of conspiracies against the sovereign. He argues about who should be responsible for guarding the liberty of the republic, whether or not this power should reside with the people or the noble classes, using the political structure of ancient Rome and…

Discourse is a simple, flat forum, where replies flow down the page in a line. It is known as formal discussion of a topic in speech or writing among individuals, but it has also come, within linguistics for instance, to mean the way in which linguistic elements are united so as to constitute variant, a structure of meaning larger than the sum of its parts. In the society, social practices and institutions are both integrated by and situated within forms of discourse and works as organizing and…

Student Name Instructor’s Name Course Designation Date of Submission Genre Analysis: Dentistry Discourse Community Genre Regardless of the tremendously expanded size of the dentistry discourse community and the vast number of texts in English devoted to the logical examination of the key issues in dentistry among experts of all fields, there seems, by all accounts, to be minimal published research in the field of applied linguistics on dentistry. Along these lines, this paper seeks to expand…

CDA is discourse analytical research that primarily studies the way social-power abuse and inequality are enacted, reproduced, legitimated, and resisted by text and talk in social and political context (Schiffrin, Tannen, & Hamilton, 2001, p. 466). Fairclough and Wodak (1997) summarized the main tents of CDA to (1) address social problems, (2) power relations are discursive, (3) discourse constitutes society and culture, (4) discourse does ideological work, (5) discourse is historical, (6)…

Exigence: My new discourse is a deeper understanding of music. Not just the technique of the musical, but also the feeling behind it and hearing that in it. This discourse is necessary because when composers write music there is something they want to get across. It is important for musicians to be able to feel what the composer wants us to feel so that when the musician performs it themselves they can try and get that feeling across as well. For me, this discourse was needed at that time so…

Epictetus’ discourse begins by discussing the things that are in our power in addition to the things that are not. He provides examples that demonstrates the possibility of confusing the two. He explains, “How far does the grammatic art possess the contemplating power? As far as forming a judgment about what is written and spoken. And how far music? As far as judging about melody. Does either of them then contemplate itself? By no means.” Epictetus is explaining that humans have power over the…

to spiritual growth throughout college by communicating with students in a way that welcomes all types of students without judgment. This organization is a discourse community, a group of people that share common goals and communicate about a particular topic, at the College of Charleston. To determine this, I compared Journey to the discourse community discussed by John Swales in his academic article. In his piece, Swales explains that to be a true…

The Discourse communities (DC) is not a new vocabulary in this world, it begin at when society exist in the world. There are some tools could analyze DC has been proposed by Gee, a “a member of the National Academy of Education”(“James Gee.”). He claims that people who have similar interests, symbol, acting or beliefs could be in a same DC, and there are eight tools that he proposed to definite a DC, they are “social language”, “social identity”, “intersexuality”,” Discourse maps”,” kits”,…

Uncivil discourse includes the engagement in conversations which involves dismissing opposing views with no desire for a common of mutual understanding. The most recent act of civil discourse that I have observed has been on social media. Recently Ayesha Curry (Stephen Curry’s Wife) voiced her option regarding women’s body image on twitter. Though her option was not stated in a mean or malicious way, many of those who disagreed with her statement, voiced their options in way lacking in civil…