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    linguistic system to establish the relationships between grammatical units in a discourse. This language concept defined differently by many scholars and it has a high frequency in linguistics. Scholars used this word when they want to refer to an extant more than one sentence. As Sadeghi and Kargar (2014) said "discourse means consistency in a language; so, just a chain of words and sentences do not create a discourse" (p, 328). A text is considered constitute if there is a relationship between…

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    Discourse Analysis

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    Webster, discourse is “a mode or organizing knowledge, ideas, or experience that is rooted in language and its concrete contexts (as history or institutions)” (“Discourse,” n.d.). Discourse Analysis focuses on how human exchange ideas, and for interpreters this includes verbal, nonverbal, and signed communication. Interpreters sometimes believe that their main goal should be to learn to sign as many words, sentences, and facial expressions as possible. However, in the article “Intro to…

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    Discourse Analysis of “Black Hair” by Gary Soto Background and General Themes - The author of the text is no other than Gary Soto, a straight Mexican American or Chicano male that was 33 years old at the time of the text. - The author’s works focus on daily experiences, more likely than not reflecting on his life as a chicano, and this piece is in line with his other works. - The piece is autobiographical, and as such, it is partly or entirely based on true events the author has experienced. -…

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    The intervention strategies the clinician will use to target Amanda’s specific language weakness are narratives and discourse. The client’s teacher main concerns were the areas of expressive language skills as well as limited vocabulary. The clinician will target narratives and discourse to increase the client’s expressive language skills. Research by McCabe and Bliss, supports that children should have the ability to provide with a minimum of two events in a narrative. The clinician can…

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    The body in the closet Visibility is not simply about the recognition, identification and categorization of bodies, but it is also how bodies negotiate and exist within systems of power. These are the very dynamics which regulate the invisibility of certain bodies as well. The idea of the ‘closet’ which Sedgwick develops, points at how complicated the promise of invisibility inside the closet and visibility outside the closet is. According to her, culture can be understood through the…

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    He goes on to list examples that explain the six different characteristics of identifying discourse communities including: shared goals, ways of communication, ways to respond, using genres, specific vocabulary, and the amount of people and their skill levels(Swales 220-222). Only one of those would apply to the Southern community, and that is…

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    Jackson Katz’s commentary surrounding the Newtown shooting reiterates feminist, specifically men’s studies, discourses over the last thirty years. Katz, also director of the film ‘Tough Guise’, uses his platform on the Huffington Post website to call for change in the navigation of the socially-fraught waters surrounding mass murder events. A more detailed and focused discussion can be found developing these ideas, in Mia Consalvo’s The Monsters Next Door, wherein which she develops the notion…

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    concentrated agenda, and commitment to disrupt hetero-patriarchy. This vantage point often bifurcated and relegated one’s identity to an antagonist of patriarchal mores and norms or an apologist for structural inequity. These polarizing identity markers often legitimated or delegitimized feminist activists. This approach, to me, falsely curated a binary that was corrosive to the larger narrative of feminism in American religious history and devalued the efforts of women who maintained their…

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    superimposed” (Schwartz, quoted in Mendoza-Denton 2008: 179). This memorialization is non-standardized and shared, thus evasive (not to be used against the gang) and shared (the collective memory is continuing and ever-changing). Various forms of discourse and embodied practices are brought in the process…

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    Through orientalist discourse, the West has asserted a sexist attitude towards women, claimed their superiority over Middle Eastern men, and claimed political and religious superiority. Essentially, the orientalist discourse has created is the opposite of the Christian sentiments Westerners claim. History has allowed itself to repeat so that Western civilizations stay superior when compared to the East. This discourse is not only toxic to the Eastern societies they try…

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