under a single point of view that slow succession of events and discoveries in the most natural order.” This passage can be found as the first paragraph of the Second Part of Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. It is one that encapsulates most of his general ideas that can be found in the Discourse in a single paragraph. Rousseau’s philosophy is that by nature‚ humans are essentially peaceful‚ content and equal. “It is the socialization process that has produced inequality‚ competition
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John Swales is an author who wrote “The Concept of Discourse Community”‚ which is an essay that aims to clearly conceptualize what a discourse community is and does so by outlining six criteria that must be met in order to identify a group of people as a discourse community. In fact‚ in his essay‚ Swales considers hierarchy to be one of the defining characteristics of any discourse community. Swales also claims that within the hierarchy of a discourse community that‚ “individuals enter as apprentices
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METHOD AND RESEARCH DESIGN Chapter Four: Method and Design I. Data Selection The company has shaped the most cinematographic works about Native Americans in Hollywood. Hence‚ this canon choice that the company constructed is the foundation of our analysis‚ as the company have access to a massive audiences particularly the European-Americans. We listed all the movies whose narrative and main characters formed the standard about Native groups’ life-style and household that are external or unfamiliar
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limitations of social work practice within an organization‚ such as a hospital‚ that operates from a biomedical discourse (give an example)? The biomedical discourse is one of the most influential discourses in the health care profession today (Healy‚ p. 20). Biomedicine is a dominant and pervasive model in health care settings and there are strengths and limitations in working within the this discourse. One of the strengths of working within this model‚ it allows you to work within a multidisciplinary
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Clemens book Made in Detroit is a clear example of a discourse community. The main reasons that the Arkansas boys are a discourse community is because of their profession‚ where they spend time‚ and how they interact with one another. One thing that relates to all of the Arkansas boys and makes them a discourse community is their profession. All of them are salvagers working at an automotive plant in Detroit. This fits into Swales concepts of a discourse community because all the workers have a common
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Language Analysis: Lower the voting age to 16…NOW! The website of Young People Unite had published an article by Melissa Young on the 5th of May 2010. The opinion piece by the 17-year-old addresses the issue of whether or not the legal voting age should drop to 16 years of age. Melissa Young makes a claim that with the laws already placed upon 16-year-olds (e.g. legal age to getting their learner license) they should have
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Investigating a Journalistic Discourse Community When you walk into a newsroom of journalists‚ you will see people reading‚ discussing‚ and writing the news. Journalists from all around the world‚ mostly the United States‚ join in Long Beach‚ California‚ where they collaborate to gather and publish information in the Gazette Newspapers‚ forming a professional discourse community. A discourse community is a group of individuals unified by common interests or goals and who have methods for communicating
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What’s the BIG IDEA? A Student’s Guide to How “Academic Writing” becomes “Academic Discourse” By Dee Broughton You may think that the purpose of college is the education of students‚ and certainly‚ to some degree‚ that’s true. But your professors are not just teachers. They are academics who research and study in their chosen fields in order to contribute to the body of knowledge in that field. In short‚ your major field‚ such as ELT or chemistry or food science‚ exists in the university because
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Double Language Analysis Katie White Recent shark attacks in Western Australia has raised controversy about how to solve the issue. “Stem the carnage” is a letter to the editor written by Sam Forsythe appeared on the 18th April 2007‚ Forsythe argues that the only solution is to kill the man-eating monsters with a genuinely concerned tone. In response to “stem the carnage”‚ James Whitt wrote a letter‚ in a somewhat condescending tone‚ contending that killing the sharks is a ridiculous suggestion
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communities communicate with each other and the specific ways they do so. In “Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice: Membership‚ Conflict‚ and Diversity”‚ Johns defines communities of practice as something that “refers to genres and lexis‚ but especially to many practices and values that hold communities together or separate them from one another” (500). Communities of practice are groups of people who use distinct language‚ objectives‚ and ideas‚ that are different from other communities and
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