POWER BEHIND DISCOURSE Main points in this session: 1. Power behind discourse: Standard language 2. Power behind discourse: discourse types as ‘effects of power’ 3. Power and access to discourse The idea of ‘power behind discourse’ is that the whole social order of discourse is put together and held together as a hidden effect of power. Fairclough (1989) = three aspects of ‘power behind discourse’‚ i.e. of hidden effects of power: 1. Standard language 2. particular discourse types which
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“The Concept of Discourse Community‚” an excerpt from the book Genre Analysis‚ by John Swales attempts to indicate the actual definition of a discourse community. Swales main argument is that there is a difference between a speech community and a discourse community. Also‚ that there are six characteristics a group must meet in order to be a discourse community. Swales then provides examples and discusses issues concerning the idea of a discourse community. In the beginning of Swales argument‚
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The Real Inspector Hound: A discourse of postmodernism In this essay we will try to explain why The Real Inspector Hound is a Postmodernist play. To do this First we must decide on what Postmodernism actually is. As many critics have written many definitions on this subject overlapping and contradicting each other it is hard to find a single definition of postmodernism. So first to embark on this journey‚ we are going to find and state a single definition of postmodernism and afterwards we shall
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Analysis of the Main Indian Characters in Orientalist Discourse in A Passage to India Abstract: E. M. Forster is one of the most outstanding British writers in the early twentieth century. His novel A Passage to India was published in 1924 and it aroused much criticism at the time. With the publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978)‚ this novel has been reinterpreted from a new prospective —— Orientalist criticism. Applying Orientalist criticism‚ this paper intends to reveal Forster’s double
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Colonialism the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country‚ occupying it with settlers‚ and exploiting it economically. Why did I mentioned colonialism? Because it changed the Islamic world in many aspects. For example‚ France took control of Algeria in 1830 with the brutal assault. Thomas Robert Bugeaud and‚ like most colonial powers‚ solidified their power by exacerbating existing ethnic tensions and introducing new ones. The French systematically disenfranchised
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Colonialism affected every part of African society‚ and its effects continue decades after decolonization. Changes in religion‚ education‚ and urbanization began when Europeans first settled in the continent and started to inject their own culture into existing African communities. The institutions set up by colonizers have remained standing since decolonization‚ both in place of and in addition to the traditional institutions. The consequences of European imperialism are felt in nearly every aspect
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Discourse Community Analysis For the last decade‚ massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs) have been rising in popularity‚ with the total revenue of these games coming out to be about half a billion dollars. Since the year 2004‚ there is one game that has greatly contributed to this increase of interest in the genre: World of Warcraft. Since its inception‚ World of Warcraft has achieved over eleven million subscribers‚ as well as being referenced in mainstream media such as news
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He describes that a discourse includes all the ways of “being in the word” in which individuals share values‚ words‚ acts‚ beliefs‚ attitudes‚ and social identities (1989). John Swales is another scholar who has defined the concept of the discourse community. He focuses his work on distinguishing speech community from Discourse community. He describes speech communities as groups that share linguistic goals while discourse communities are those groups that have the six
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Discourse on the Arts and Sciences is an award winning proposal by Jean-Jacques Rousseau conceived with the intent of addressing the “potentially purifying effects upon morals through the restoration of the arts and sciences.” [p. 1] Rousseau examines the concept of measuring our own self worth with the ability to perform in a manner deemed worthy of the rest of societies approbation. This is explored as Rousseau describes the consequences of “perceiving the principal advantage of an intercourse
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Isaac Kramnick’s “Discourse of Politics in 1787” deals with the paradigm of homo civicus (civic humanism) and liberalism in the Constitution‚ the Federalist and Antifederalist papers along with political positions used to address the concepts of virtue and power. The historical background of 1787 establishes the United States as a country incapable of defending its sovereignty as an independent nation and‚ in the same time‚ a confederation of sovereign states with a weak central government. This
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