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    Critical discourse analysis‚ organizational discourse‚ and organizational change A realist view of discourse analysis Discourses is an element of all concrete social events (actions‚ processes) as well as of more durable social practices‚ though neither are simply discourse: they are articulations of discourse with non-discoursal elements. ‘Discourse’ subsumes language as well as other forms of semiosis such as visual images and ‘body language’‚ and the discoursal element of a social event often

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    THE METAPHORIC DIMENSION OF ECONOMIC TEXTS The Translation of Economic Metaphors The paper aims at presenting the main types of the most commonly used English economic metaphors‚ focussing on the translation strategies that could be used for rendering them into Russian. Introduction. The problem of translation acquires a tremendous importance not only in fiction‚ but also in non-fictional texts‚ especially those are related to newly developed or upcoming areas of human activity‚ such as the

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    Discourse communities are groups of people that share the same goals‚ ambitions‚ and equal beliefs. I believe that one single person can belong to many different discourse communities depending on who they are‚ on the inside. For example three discourse communities that I belong to are the Faulkner county sheriffs department‚ my church youth group‚ and my group of buddies I play video games with. Faulkner county’s sherrifs department was a big part of my career. Even though I don’t work in the jail

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    Descartes vs Locke

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    theoretical methods in which information is learned. Of these methods‚ there are two that are most widely accepted. Rationalism and empiricism are also the most widely debated methods of knowledge. Rationalism claims that a priori processes and intuition gain knowledge. Rationalism claims that knowledge is innate; but that it varies among humans. At the other end of the spectrum‚ empiricism claims that knowledge is gained largely by experience‚ observation‚ and sensory perception. René Descartes and John

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    What is national unity? National unity and integration is a situation where by people of diverse cultures‚ religions‚ languages‚ political‚ social and economic systems are brought together to have a common goal The people have mutual understanding‚ love‚ co-operation and trust among them. They are united‚ tolerant and have faith in their fatherland. They de-emphasize their differences and stress more on their common goals and aspirations and any other thing that can bring about unity in diversity

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    Throughout both of these works his opinion of using violence when needed has never changed. In the Discourses he states that if you need to resort to violence in order to seize power so you can reconstruct the constitution of a city so that it fosters political liberty‚ go for it. (Machiavelli 1994‚129). Likewise‚ in The Prince Machiavelli justifies the

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    of the Sermon on the Mount discourse‚ which is one of the five discourses of the Gospel of Matthew (5-7‚ 10‚ 13‚ 18‚ and 23-25). This passage locates relatively earlier in the Sermon. Professor Dallas Willard (1998)‚ in his book The Divine Conspiracy‚ claims that “The later parts of the Discourse presuppose the earlier parts and simply cannot be understood unless their dependence upon the earlier parts is clearly seen” (p. 138). If the sequential order in the discourse is important‚ then the earlier

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    Critical Discourse Analysis INTRODUCTION Naturism is an alternative discourse‚ as consciously and systematically proposes a vision of reality‚ an order of things and a logic of social relations that diverge from the hegemonic ideology. In this sense‚ this naturalism is political‚ if we understand the political and ethical proposal of interaction and social action. There arises the need for its exponents to adopt discursive strategies that allow them to justify it. Then drove the hypothesis

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    Reading Response “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics” by James Paul Gee Summary: In “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics‚” James Paul Gee attempts to explain “a way of talking about literacy” and “literacy studies.” He describes how a Discourse is not the same as discourse‚ details the different types of Discourses‚ and introduces several new terms to strengthen his argument. Gee’s overall claims‚ in his own words‚ is “the focus of literacy studies or applied linguistics should not be language

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    Michel Foucault on Discourse

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    Discourse: based on ideas of Michel Foucault‚ discourse theory refers to the idea that the terms in which we speak‚ write and think about the world are a reflection of wider relations of power‚ and since they are also linked to practise‚ are themselves important in maintaining that power structure In the Order of Things (1970) Foucault focuses on fields of knowledge‚ such as economics‚ or natural history and the conventions according to which they were classified and represented in particular

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