Discourse analysis

In 2011, Chad Newbrough Steacy wrote his thesis, Discourse in the Abandoned Small Town: Toward a Critical Geography of Decline. The title must be Steacy’s best expression of his interpretation of the state of affairs in the small town of Sunbury, PA. Steacy elaborates in the heart of his thesis, “An indication of the economic change that has affected Sunbury is the large amount of abandoned industrial space woven into the town’s landscape.” (Steacy, 2011). Clearly, Steacy is writing about a…

and child control group). The TBI groups sustained a moderate head injury between two and four years prior to the study and were no longer receiving speech therapy. Each participant engaged in the conversational assessment of Damico’s Clinical Discourse Analysis. Results of the TBI groups were compared to their respective control group to calculate deviance in terms of pragmatic impairment. Introduction Both the childhood and adolescent years are important times in an individual’s emotional and…

traditional critical discourse analysis. Bickes, Otten and Weymann (2014) concentrate on the instances of metaphorical language in the news coverage of three international news magazines to investigate how these three media present the crisis differently. Fonseca and Ferreira (2015) adopted the Critical Discourse Analysis to explore the discursive legitimation strategies adopted by Portuguese government on its political actions response to a financial crisis. Public discourse on crises is…

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), defines power as control. According to him, some groups may have more or less power over others. The privileged groups have complete access to resources, for instance, fame, money, knowledge, information, status and are able to shape the discourses prevalent in the society. It is evident from his work, that power is not absolute. Powerful parties may control others, in specific situations and circumstances, not giving them a chance to participate in the…

In part four of Descartes’ Discourse on Method, the word ‘perfect’ is used numerous times. The excessive use of the word marks its importance in Descartes argument. This part of Descartes work contains Descartes’ thoughts on God and proof of God’s existence. He is exploring the idea of a perfect being, but the word ‘perfect’ seems to take on different meanings throughout the section of Descartes deliberating on what makes a perfect being. Perfect is used in relation to doubt, in relation to God,…

that he defines between sex and discourse is quite complex. Arguably, rather than focusing on sex and discourse, he focuses more so on the idea of the discourse of sexuality as leading to the concept of sex. He also ties in the idea of power-knowledge-pleasure into the relationship between sex and discourse. In the opening chapter of the book Foucault states that the “object, in short, is to define the regime of power-knowledge-pleasure that sustains the discourse on human sexuality” (11). He…

was to address how the International Thespian Society was a discourse community and explain how. My thesis statement gave me a lot to run with: “By the standards given by Swales, the International Thespian Society is a discourse community” (Bartley 9). For this paper, a lot more research was needed. I conducted interviews, recorded meetings, and collected all forms of genre I could. I then drew up an outline that had each trait of a discourse community and then went on to write notes for each…

Adam Smith said “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.” Smith is saying that not every society is fair. There will be some people that are happy and some people that do not have as much. The gap between the rich and the poor is too large. If the rich were to give a little back or invest their money in businesses or other services it could help close that gap. The rich occupy a large amount of money and resources in…

RALW’S Theory of Justice vs. Habermas’s Discourse Ethics Discourse Ethics Habermas is considered one of the originators of modern discourse ethics. What is Discourse Ethics by the way? Discourse Ethics often referred to, as argumentation ethics is a normative framework that is suitable for employment when deliberating on the moral troubles that emerge in a pluralistic environment. This theory recognizes that within any environment populated with individuals conflicting moral values will exist,…

Balance in Governing Nakae Chōmin first published A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government in 1887, during the Meiji Restoration, a historical turning point in Japan’s political and economic development. This turning point was heavily induced by the introduction to the outside western civilization. This introduction pushed Japan to determine how to improve its current government to better compete with that of the West. In Nakae Chōmin’s, A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government, there…