Concept of Discourse Community”‚ John Swales reveals that language use tends to be socially constructed‚ and that a discourse community tends to differ from a speech community. A discourse community is commonly defined as a group of people that share a common set of values‚ and establish ways in order to effectively communicate about their goals. A common example of a community discourse is a group of people that share the same culture and speak the same language. Swales argues that discourse communities
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CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE MOVIE LOVE ACTUALLY Love Actually is All Around… Leon Koshcheyev English 2010 Professor O. Pimentel Love Actually is the ultimate romantic comedy written and directed by Richard Curtis. This film consist of dozens of different love stories that like a quilt are weaved together to make one story about love. It is about love in its many forms: love between family members‚ love between husbands and wives‚ innocent love‚ undeclared love‚ and romantic love. The
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doi:10.4304/tpls.4.6.1178-1187 Critical Discourse Analysis of Barack Obama ’s 2012 Speeches: Views from Systemic Functional Linguistics and Rhetoric Bahram Kazemian Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Somayyeh Hashemi Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Abstract—In the light of Halliday ’s Ideational Grammatical Metaphor‚ Rhetoric and Critical Discourse Analysis‚ the major objectives of this study
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For my analysis of a discourse community that I am a part of‚ I will be focusing on St. Xavier High School and Jesuit education. St. Xavier is a great example of a discourse community and is backed up by the scholarly articles written by John Swales and Joseph Harris. Joseph Harris focuses his argument about what makes a community a community around writing. Harris proposes that “our aims and intentions in writing are thus not merely personal‚ idiosyncratic‚ but reflective of the communities to which
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ABSTRACT TRINIDAD‚ KATHERINE JOY HABANEZ‚ 2013. Critical Discourse Analysis of Political Campaign Ads and Speeches. AB English Thesis. College of Arts in Sciences‚ University of Southern Mindanao‚ Kabacan‚ Cotabato. Adviser: RICELI C. MENDOZA‚ PhD The study aimed to analyze the different political campaign ads and speeches of the candidates running for a certain office and employed the Critical Discourse Analysis framework. Specifically‚ it sought to analyze the linguistic features
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POWER BEHIND DISCOURSE Main points in this session: 1. Power behind discourse: Standard language 2. Power behind discourse: discourse types as ‘effects of power’ 3. Power and access to discourse The idea of ‘power behind discourse’ is that the whole social order of discourse is put together and held together as a hidden effect of power. Fairclough (1989) = three aspects of ‘power behind discourse’‚ i.e. of hidden effects of power: 1. Standard language 2. particular discourse types which
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Discourse Analysis Critical Discourse Analysis on Iwan Fals Song Lyric “Asik Nggak Asik” focusing on Semantic‚ Lexical Cohesion and Ideology By: Heri Winarko (2011120052) Indri Astuti (2011120014) Muhammad Ainul Muiz (2011120061) Syaifurohman (2011120059) Section C ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING DEPARTMENT FACULTY OF EDUCATION USBI THE SAMPOERNA UNIVERSITY JAKARTA 2014 Abstract Song‚ despite as a tool to entertain the audience and also as a tool to express the writer’s feelings. In the lyric of some
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in Obama’s speech of inauguration based on “Analyzing Political Discourses” Theory and Practice by Paul Chilton Number of Words: 2589 Introduction: Political discourses are made to impress‚ persuade and to underline ideas to change a country. Politicians use specialized writers to write for them their discourses or use a lot of time to write one‚ as political discourses are important for the future outcome. For example: To be voted by
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Nicolo Machiavelli’s ’Discourses on Livy’ written 1513-1517‚ is a commentary on the work of Titus Livy (59 BC - AD 17) a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome entitled ’Ab Urbe Condita’ literally translating as ’from the founding of the city (Rome)’. What Machiavelli set out to detail within the Discourses in essence‚ is the refined knowledge gleaned from an in depth analysis of Livy’s accounts‚ observations of the legislative‚ socio-political and military management structures
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A Critical Discourse Analysis of I Have a Dream Speech through the Semantic Use of Monetary Symbols to Reflect Injustice Abstract This paper is a critical discourse analysis of I Have a Dream speech by Martin Luther King to show how he uses metaphors to reflect injustice. The paper aims first at giving a glimpse of the econo-‚ politico-‚ and socio- cultural background which triggered the speech. From there‚ I move on to studying the macro and micro layers of the speech and to
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