Discourse

cultural situations (e.g., Ngo & Unsworth, 2015), or as a methodology for discourse analysis (e.g., Mei & Allison, 2005; Chen, 2010). While appraisal theory has been successfully applied as an analysis framework within different genres, such as media discourse, educational contexts, and legal discourse (Wei, Wherrity & Zhang, 2015), it has also been implemented in L2 research as an instructional (e.g., Haromi, 2014), or discourse analysis (e.g., Ryshina-Pankova & Kugele, 2013; Harman & Xiaodong,…

reading. They have also required me to show attention to audience, purpose, genre, diction, tone, organization, and other aspects of the rhetorical context. In this reflection, I have included four discourses (a personal discourse, a public discourse, a professional discourse, and an academic discourse): a memoir, an event profile, an informational report, and a textual analysis. I have also included six journal entries from throughout the…

been built into the school curriculum and implemented across the country (Ministry of Education, 2007; Education Act, 1989). However, before discussion on the fostering of an inclusive educational culture, it is imperative to examine the historical discourses that have shaped public opinion and reason regarding people with disabilities within the wider community. A society that celebrates…

framework to qualitatively investigate the social and psychological factors behind why altruistic kidney donors donate. Furthermore to allow the findings to not be affected by post-donation thoughts and experience the study focussed on pre-donation. Discourse analysis was used to examine how language is used by altruistic kidney donors to think and speak. Nonetheless the positioning theory argues that some participants may choose to…

Furthermore, the dominant social discourse on Alzheimer disease, policy surrounding health care, and direct social work practice supporting individual from micro, mezzo, and macro will be discussed. The growing population of older women prisoners is becoming alarming and the need for healthcare services…

Jan Blommaert’s article Citizenship, Language, and Superdiversity: Towards Complexity focus on our understanding of citizenship, and how superdiversity has challenged this view. Altering concepts of community, language, and citizenship by analysing the integration process, and realising that the idea of citizenship has many centres of power and importance. Blommaert has challenged the complexity of dis-citizenship, investigating the many interconnected parts, including the problems faced by…

written and classroom discourse Classroom discourse ABSTRACT Classroom discourse analysis is an aspect of classroom process research. It helps teacher understand how teachers use a language in classroom. Based on the record of discourse collected from the course we learn in the class, this paper attempts to reveal the features of discourse English classroom. The paper describes and analyzes the data from the aspects of the amount of teacher talk, the structures of classroom discourse and the…

The preoccupation of discourse analysts is to investigate how people, through the variability of language, represent versions of reality within discursive contexts and its implications for knowledge production. Discourse analysts contend that beliefs, attitudes, representations and perceptions of people are not stable and enduring across contexts; rather, they are constructed in accordance with historical and socio-cultural frameworks of discourse and interpersonal interaction. To fully…

difference between discourses based on Gee’s work. Discourses differ in a variety of both broad and specific categories and many different things are pieced together to create these common mutual practices. By understanding the configuration of badminton, and through this, one can also define which type of Discourse it is as there are different types. Badminton can be described as a non-dominant secondary Discourse. In James Gee’s work on linguistics he describes not only what a Discourse is,…

Engineering Discourse as Compared to the Amish: Literary Merit of Technical Writing Technical communication is one of the fundamental literate activities of the engineering field. The skills and literacy involved in coding and building robots is spread across many divisions of engineering, whether it be mechanical, electrical, aerospace or an undecided major in the STEM field. To help introduce the necessary tools of inscription and the inscription process of programming a robot in both the…