who played those kind of games as a kid. There is also a little bit of Kung-Fu‚ Karate Judo and etc. influences on the styles. In this ethnography‚ I will discuss how MMA is more than just a combination of different fighting systems; it is also a discourse community‚ in other words according to John Swales‚ it is a made up of individuals who share “a broadly agreed upon set of common public goals”. This form of fighting can be traced back since the Greco-Roman times during the ancient Olympics when
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idea is not a new one can be traced back to Plato’s Crito however Plato’s social contract is between the individual and the law not the will of the people(Plato 51 c 53a) He is famous for his common enlightenment position that we are better off being noble in our state of nature of noble savages this point is driven through more clearly in his work Discourse on Inequality‚ (Rousseau 1755) The Social Contract is more open to the view that we can benefit from modern society. He sets out to determine the
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Do I Fit in? Years and years go by as people who are new to American society try to adjust to changes in lifestyle. Since America was built on a basis of immigrants I know I am not the first to ask the question “Do I fit in?” There are many stories‚ but I am only covering the topic of my 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
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2.1. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA): 2.1.1. What is CDA? 2.1.1.1. Critical‚ discourse and analysis Before beginning to address what CDA is‚ it is important to be clear about what is meant by the concepts of critical‚ discourse‚ and analysis: The notion of ‘critical’ is primarily associated with the critical theory of the Frankfurt School where social theory should be oriented towards critiquing and changing society. In CDA‚ the concept of ‘critical’ is applied
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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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side. Which will be easy to do if he protects their interests” (Machiavelli 32). This an important point that every ruler should have into account if they want to have a loyal populace‚ it is in some way logical and realist: if a ruler stays in good terms with his people‚ then they will follow him; if this person is not on the side of the people‚ then why should the people should him? In the same way‚ talking about his second letter that he called The Discourses‚ where Machiavelli talks about the
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This paper will conduct a critical discourse analysis on North American media coverage of the World Indigenous Games. Jiwani and Young (2006) offer a helpful framework for a methodical approach to exploring Indigenous representations in media. In their article on the missing and murdered women of Vancouver’s Eastside‚ they studied 128 newspaper articles over the course of five years in order to uncover patterns on how Indigenous people are framed in the media. The article clearly states that the
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the world; however‚ today our focus is to take a look at the discourse community of biology and analyze what components of language do they value more and the reasoning behind it. Before we learn more about the discourse community of biology‚ we need to know something about the discourse community. What is discourse community and who is in discourse community and are you part of discourse community. According to the article “Discourse Community”‚ by
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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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To appear in the Handbook of Discourse Analysis‚ edited by Deborah Tannen‚ Deborah Schiffrin‚ and Heidi Hamilton. Oxford: Blackwell. Computer-Mediated Discourse Susan C. Herring 1 Introduction 1.1 Definition Computer-mediated discourse is the communication produced when human beings interact with one another by transmitting messages via networked computers. The study of computer-mediated discourse (henceforth CMD) is a specialization within the broader interdisciplinary study of computer-mediated
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