can be defined by the dominant discourses in society‚ such as gender and sexuality. Michael Foucault’s definition of discourse is more than just the ways of thinking and producing meaning through communication. The notion of discourse defined by Foucault have become closely associated with power and knowledge (Miller‚ 1990). Dominant discourse demonstrates how reality has been socially constructed. They can be found in many forms of media and communication. Discourses become dominant because they are
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Communication between males and females has always been somewhat complicated. Because we are arguing that males and females have different cultures we wanted to take a look at what some of these differences might be. According to our research the inherent differences between male and female culture are the different roles that society holds for them and the ways these roles lead to different communication styles. The stereotypes that men and women grow up with affect the types of ways in which they
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A discourse community is essentially a group of people that aggregate together at a time when their interest may meet. I’m a member of an immoderate number of discourse communities‚ as are others I’m sure. Interestingly‚ when I mull over what community I can say I find most attractive‚ there is almost no confusion on which community that is. Quite astonishing‚ really‚ since most would likely have multiple favorite discourse communities. It wasn’t until I thought deeply about this particular matter
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Political discourse fails to explain the rise and nature of authoritarian governments in industrialized societies when it presupposes the rational political actor. Time and time again‚ the rational‚ self-interested political agent fails to measure up with particular political situations and circumstances‚ often leading to unpredictable catastrophes. This rational political actor has its origins in the Cartesian‚ ahistorical‚ self-conscious subject—a subject capable of using the "light of reason"
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The Analysis of the Characteristics of Discourse Marker WELL 话语标记语WELL特征分析 摘 要 言语交际中的话语标记语虽在句子中不占据句子成分‚却是在交际中很常见的现象。本文以言语交际中的话语标记语WELL为研究对象，分析和判断它在交际中的特征，为正确理解话语交际意图，准确对其进行翻译提供参考。 关键词 话语标记语；WELL；交际意图；翻译 Abstract It is very common in English to use the expression form like “well”‚ “oh”‚ “you know”‚ “you see”‚ “I mean”‚ “that is to say”‚ “in other words”‚ “as I said”‚ which are all discourse markers. They are small words which do not contribute to the propositional content of the utterance which
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. . . . . . . CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING INTRODUCTION Today‚ humans are in the modern world equipped with modern technology. But‚ some people cannot break the chains that bind them with their beliefs and tradition. One is the existence of supernatural beings. According to Hubbard (n.d.)‚ “The supernatural is natural not yet understand”. This means that supernatural being exist after the world has begun but as of now‚ humans do not know nor understand it. Human says that supernaturals
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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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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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Environmental Ethics Gaia Hypothesis (eco-holism) James Lovelock argues that we are part of planet earth and not masters of it. He argued for the existence of ’Gaia’ - a living system which controls the earth and keeps everything constant. Lovelock says that Gaia keeps the planet at a constant state of management. Lovelock says we shouldn’t be anthropocentric (focussing solely on ourselves) but biocentric‚ and says that Gaia restores balance to the imbalance caused by humans. The earth is‚ Lovelock
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