On Discourse Analysis‚ looking at a sample of spoken discourse from Michelle Obama’s Democratic National Conference Presentation. In this paper I aim to apply different methods of discourse analysis to a selected extract of transcribed language. I have chosen to transcribe a speech given by the First Lady of the United States‚ Michelle Obama. Firstly‚ to briefly outline the context‚ the speech was given during the Democratic National Convention in September 2012‚ in the run up to the presidential
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of many different discourse communities even though we don’t realize it‚ but we actually get ourselves involved without even knowing. Discourse communities are everywhere not just in schools‚ colleges‚ nor churches they are all over our community. From interacting with your roommate in your dorm to since club you are involved they are all discourse communities. Dancing by its self won’t function as a discourse community but once we talk about Dance Teams we are creating a discourse community within
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Section 1 1.1 In this essay‚ I will be conducting a discourse analysis on a speech made by Winston Churchill in the 1940s‚ when he informed the British public that they will be entering war. I will use sociological research which examines the discourse of politics to supply context for this speech. My research topic is to discover in this essay is how Prime Ministers use persuasive techniques to win the support of the people. To achieve this‚ I will be comparing Churchill’s speech to Tony Blair’s
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Contemporary Sustainability Discourse” Discourses‚ using spoken or written language in a social context‚ are more than narratives of human existence. A contemporary feminist author and professor‚ Chris Weedon‚ paraphrases French philosopher‚ Michel Foucault in the following passage: (discourses are) “ways of constituting knowledge‚ together with the social practices‚ forms of subjectivity and power relations which inhere in such knowledges and relations between them. Discourses are more than ways of
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James Paul Gee defines discourse communities as a way of life‚ which consolidates with language and texts (Gee‚ 274). He goes to say that discourses are used to create meaning to activities or to “get things done or not” (Gee‚ 275). According to Swales‚ there are six characteristics in order to be entitled a discourse community. The characteristics are as following: "[It has] A broadly agreed set of common public goals‚ [It has] mechanisms of intercommunication among its members (such as newsletters
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that has stuck out in particular to me is Gees ideas about Discourse. A Discourse is “ a socially accepted association among ways of using language of thinking and of acting that can be used to identify oneself as a member of a socially meaningful group or social network” (Gee 274). Literacy can be seen differently though everyone’s eyes because we all have different interpretations of it. Gee believes that literacy is all about Discourses. This connects to all of the literary critics works in how
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Conversation Analysis & Discourse Analysis tive Compara A a odu ritical Intr nd C ction Robin Wooffitt Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis A Comparative and Critical Introduction Robin Wooffitt SAGE Publications London ● Thousand Oaks ● New Delhi © Robin Wooffitt 2005 First published 2005 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study‚ or criticism or review‚ as permitted under the Copyright
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George F. Cabrera October 6‚ 2013 The Prince and The Discourses and it’s similarities. Reading the books of Machiavelli’s: The Prince and The Discourses I noticed there are many similarities to one another. Machiavelli explains the concept of an ideal ruler that he thinks would be able to govern with great power and adversity from his observation of previous rulers. The Prince is a book written about Tyrants while The Discourses is a book written by lovers of liberty (The Prince‚ Introduction-
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In our book‚ Writing About Writing‚ John Swales defines a discourse community as a group of individuals who share “a broadly agreed upon set of public goals” that use “mechanisms of intercommunication among its members” in order to achieve their objectives (795). I have chosen to examine how the College World‚ the Adrian College school paper‚ operates as a discourse community through the use of various mechanisms in order to solve the main issues that arise. More precisely‚ the research will explore
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Critical Discourse Analysis on Political Texts Abstract Critical Discourse Analysis (hereafter abbreviated as CDA) concerns power relationships between language and society. Meanwhile‚ politics have influence in many facets around the society. Presenting samples of political texts collected‚ this paper aims at analyzing the power relationships in political texts with CDA. 1. Introduction CDA can be summarized as a study of language use through discourse as well as social problems‚ revealing
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