My story To be a part of a discourse community‚ one must be credible‚ possess factual knowledge and draw on the values of its members to be accepted into the community. At the same time‚ a person must learn typical ways people in that community communicate and argue. When I entered the discourse community of my high school athletic department I acquired knowledge‚ established credibility‚ and drew on the values and emotions of other members of the community. Although‚ one might question my standing
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Michel Foucault’s “Discipline and Punish: The Birth of a Prison” seeks to identify the origins of Discipline systems and the effects of these processes on society. Foucault focuses on the role of power in establishing societal norms‚ and the consequences that arise when individuals deviate from those norms. Foucault critiques the enlightenment’s effect on society through an examination of the processes for correcting these deviations. Foucault focuses on prison systems primarily‚ but also extends
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BAÜ FBE Dergisi Cilt:9‚ Sayı:1‚ 3-18 Temmuz 2007 Type and typology in architectural discourse Yasemin Đ. GÜNEY* Balıkesir University Faculty of Architecture and Engineering‚ Department of Architecture Çağış BALIKESĐR Abstract Typology is the comparative study of physical or other characteristics of the built environment into distinct types. In this paper‚ the historical transformation of type and typology concepts since the Enlightenment has been examined in three developing stages based
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Discourse markers (words like ’however’‚ ’although’ and ’Nevertheless’) are referred to more commonly as ’linking words’ and ’linking phrases’‚ or ’sentence connectors’. They may be described as the ’glue’ that binds together a piece of writing‚ making the different parts of the text ’stick together’. They are used less frequently in speech‚ unless the speech is very formal. Without sufficient discourse markers in a piece of writing‚ a text would not seem logically constructed and the connections
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Different Perspectives on Normalization Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish and J.S. Mill’s On Liberty both attend to the idea of the individual‚ similarly‚ yet quite differently. Mill believes that society thoroughly conditions minds so that every decision or action made by a person is heavily influenced by society. To Mill‚ genuine choices make individuality‚ as well as being spontaneous. According to Mill‚ as humankind has gone further and further into civil society‚ the less likely it is
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best interests of the prince are gaining‚ maintaining‚ and expanding his political powers or views. Since the prince is the sole authority‚ he has the power over everything and everyone. Machiavelli speaks about this in his books The Prince and The Discourses. In The Prince‚ Machiavelli concerned about the principality of the state and the Prince’s role within the sovereign state. “Men worry less about doing an injury to one who makes himself loved than to one who makes himself feared. The bond of
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Topic: Investigating the Language of Tourism Discourse in Thailand Travel Brochure Literature Review 1. Background Theory Tourism has become one of the most important businesses throughout the world and tourism discourse has become one of the most common public discourses‚ with millions of people taking part in its structure when entering a numerous of communicative situations. People‚ culture‚ landscape‚ history‚ traditions‚ and other social and natural entities have been offered and
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References: Cook‚ G. (1989). Discourse. New York: Oxford University Press. Fasold‚ R. et al. (2006). An Introduction to Language and Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. McCarthy‚ M. (1991). Discourse Analysis for Language Teachers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Radfold‚ A. et al. (2008). Linguistics: An Introduction. (2nd ed). Cambridge University
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Framing Obesity: Perspectives on Discourse Over the years‚ my perspective on obesity has been informed by education in the fields of public health‚ family therapy‚ and feminist theory. While obesity may appear to have a clear definition‚ BMI of 30 or greater‚ speak this word in any of the three aforementioned disciplines and you will receive some opposing views. My goal for this report is to outline some key terms surrounding obesity based on field and argue for a more inclusive‚ interdisciplinary
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A qualitative method‚ the focus of discourse analysis (DA) is any form of written or spoken language‚ such as a conversation or a newspaper article. The main topic of interest is the underlying social structures‚ which may be assumed or played out within the conversation or text. It concerns the sorts of tools and strategies people use when engaged in communication (also known as linguistic repertoires)‚ such as slowing one’s speech for emphasis‚ use of metaphors‚ choice of particular words to display
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