The social discourse of motherhood is a topic that has been controversial for some time. It has been analyzed from many different perspectives and known to be bad and good in some circumstances. Socially‚ motherhood has not always been accepted. A working and single mother is not given the same status in society as a married‚ financially stable mother‚ even if they both followed the same path of motherhood. There are many discrepancies in society which make it difficult to weigh the implications
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background and my Discourse. I will disclose my social habits of my Discourse I use day to day but not at school. When I use the word “Discourse” it is the combination of of saying‚ writing‚ doing‚ being‚ valuing‚ and believing. All the words use to describe social gatherings covered by the author James Paul Gee in his Article “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics: Introduction.” Discourse is capitalized because the lowercase means connected stretches of language that make sense. The Discourse I use and
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BA -ELT Distance Discourse Analysis II Written and Spoken discourse December 6th‚ 2011. Written Discourse This is an analysis made to a piece of writing made by Laural Mariana Arámbula a 6th grader (elementary school) student that has very good language skills. The text she wrote will be analyzed according to the instructions of the End of Course Assignment of Discourse Analysis II and the text is named: A letter to a friend. Dear Paola Hi how are you? I hope well I wanna wish
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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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Philosophy 1301 Professor Danny Brown June 15‚ 2013 Elizabeth and Descartes’s Conversation In his book “Discourse on Method and Mediations on First Philosophy”‚ Descartes mentioned the composition of the body and mind. When Princess Elizabeth read his book‚ she had many questions to give to Descartes‚ especially about the mind-body interaction. She said in her letter wrote to Descartes “how the soul can determine the spirits of the body to produce voluntary actions.” (Elizabeth‚ 11) They wrote
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Critical Discourse Analysis Social communication is increasingly becoming a subject of scientists’ discussions from different disciplines‚ as well as ordinary language users. In contemporary social sciences‚ especially in linguistics‚ we see a clear shift to discourse. Discourse allows us to talk about use of the language‚ as well as the language as a socio-cultural activity. In this sense‚ discourse‚ on one hand‚ reflects the social reality‚ on the other hand‚ it shapes it‚ therefore participate
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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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A Discourse Theory of Citizenship This article discusses the concept of citizenship and how citizenship as a form of public engagement is crucial to democracy as a whole. The author‚ Robert Asen‚ presents a new view that citizenship is a dynamic mode of public engagement. The first section of the article discusses questions about public beliefs and perspectives. The second section of the article discusses how citizenship is a mode of public engagement. The third section discusses how public
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With these appeals a writer such as I‚ will be able to convince this class of my success in joining the discourse community of animal shelter volunteers. A discourse Community is a community of people who share not only knowledge about specific shared topics but also similar backgrounds‚ values‚ and share a common language. I will prove in this paper that I successfully entered one of these discourse communities and was accepted by showing my
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