Discourse marker

Body weight has long been a marker of social status. Since eating disorders affect millions of people, primarily women, a structural problem is implicated. We usually consider a person’s eating disorder to be a personal trouble that stems from a lack of control, low self-esteem, or another personal problem. This explanation is okay as far as it goes, but it does not help us understand why so many people have the personal problems that lead to eating disorders. Perhaps more important, this belief…

One of the key factors within their Quebec nationalism is the relevance of the french language. Within Western Europe as well as in Canada where “sub-state nationalism” occurs, the language is used as a key identity marker (7). The issue of language has always fuelled some unrest within Quebec, as for a long time English was considered the only real official language of Canada. Yet, when Pierre Trudeau created the Multiculturalism and the Official Languages Act within…

moulds our clothing choices. Essentially what we see in the media is reflected by society and eventually becomes what is “normal” (Berger, 1991). As part of our identity construction the use and consumption of fashion is crucial. It acts as a semiotic marker enabling the construction of multi faceted and gendered identities that allow society, by way of non-verbal communication to classify us all. People are “made to identify themselves with what they consume” (Williamson, 1978, p.13).…

Jessica Dennehy Keisling 1B This essay's goal is to analyze the argument in the academic article Dude by Scott F. Kiesling, where Kiesling argues that a specific form, in this case being the word “dude” holds various functions and represents different ideologies that are discussed at length. I will do this by explaining what the form is and how the form is used, and then explaining the link between…

In addition, to that she makes the case of how the main stream society constructed the gang image through public records and societal discourse. By doing so, other aspects that were neglected or ignored in the past arose, to offer a novel reading of the gang life beyond criminology. To transcend that level of analysis, (Mendoza 2008) demonstrate how hemispheric localism as a concept can…

After the 1994 democratic elections in South Africa, a lot of change has been implemented in attempting to effectively eradicate the apartheid system. Until this present day institutions such as schools, universities and the government continue to implement a system of transformation with the aim of eradicating aspects of racism that continue to surface in people’s everyday lives; work opportunities and education. This essay will particularly focus on assessing the extent of transformation in…

and place youth as ‘other’, and in a primarily negative light, Goodwin et al’s investigations of mediatised youth drinking culture focuses on why such mediation occurs (Goodwin et al, 2016, 1). Qualitative research of youth who participate in this discourse and analysis of the “architecture and affordances” of the social networking site facebook was used. The research resulted, in an exploration of youth drinking culture and the use of photographs that depict both mild and excessive drinking…

How to Deliver Persuasive Messages; the Art of Negotiation I. According to a study titled An Argumentation-Driven Model for Flexible and Efficient Persuasive Negotiation. A “Persuasive negotiation is a type of negotiation where one agent is trying to influence the behavior of another agent using arguments supporting the proposed offers” (Bentahar & Labban, 2011).Using the proven methods pulled from philosophy and science. Parties can influence negotiation communication for a more…

The City-state would set up for citizens to gather and participate in urban discourse and was restricted to adult men. Women, boys and slaves could not participate fully in the culture. They focused their sculptures for display and respect of the gods. Their human form sculptures are different to the Athens, they are more human like…

campaigns are cultural texts which produce and challenge established meanings, values, identities, practices, and social structures like the ways of knowing, seeing, and being, and what could say. The purpose of this essay is to identify and analyse the discourse that are central to a social campaign and discuss the socio-political effects the campaign produces. This essay will be analysing a social issues campaigns which is related to against racism which created by Australian Human rights…