Gabler James C. Scott’s ‘Domination and the Arts of Resistance’ explores the discourse of domination and resistance, including the tension between the publicly exhibited dominant discourse, termed a “public transcript,” and the four types of political discourse prevalent among subordinate groups. The four types of discourse are self-image based discourse, the hidden transcript, in-between discourse, and ruptured discourse. For the purpose of this essay, focus is primarily restricted to…
Neil Postman compared the public discourse between before and after telegraph invention, he suggested the telegraph altered the very nature of social and personal discourse in American culture."The telegraph made a three-pronged attack on typography 's definition of discourse, introducing on a large scale irrelevance, impotence, and in coherence.”Said in The Peek-a-Boo World chapter. The author believed modern technology from telegraph to television, makes discourse broken, disconnected, and…
to Scotland, used as a “model for similar systems of police repression in English cities, most notably in Manchester and Leeds as well as in Edinburgh and other Scottish towns.” largely accepted that in practice the morality of Scotland’s social discourse fell short of their…
was generic criticism. Generic criticism, as defined by Gault (2008), is a method that entails the categorization of a text into a group composed of similar discourse. Two commencement speeches were analyzed, that of Stephen Colbert, delivered in Knox College Ceremony in June, 2006, and that of Jon Stewart,…
have various discourses. Specifically, it is said that the primary discourse, learned through our family, is the root of these conflicts. It becomes necessary to construct a primary new dominant discourse in order to resolve such conflicts. In order to achieve this aim, he uses three moves: compare and contrast, references to other works, and the use of revealing identity through specific pronouns. By comparing and contrasting, Williams is able to expand upon how a different discourse can affect…
Amusing Ourselves to Death, explains how television creates communication by redefining public discourse. Public discourse is the forms of conversation dealing with political, religious, or commercial. Throughout the book, Neil Postman explains how society has become unknowledgeable about the changes because of being too consumed in its epistemology. Postman starts the book by showing historical facts in the first part of the book and describes the effects of media in American life throughout…
Literature as the artifact of culture, it provides significant datum about the social setup and structure, mores and morals, religious ethos and orientation, trends and traditions, values and attitudes of a society in which a protagonist exists or struggles to exist (Spair-Whorf Hypothesis Chapter 1). It is language through which process of construction embarks on issues of identity, cultural, and ideology (Wykes and Gunter 2005:61). It aims to construct, deconstruct or reconstruct the worldview…
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…
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…
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,…