Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages‚ Inc. (TESOL) Discourse Analysis in the Reading Class Author(s): Amy Lezberg and Ann Hilferty Source: TESOL Quarterly‚ Vol. 12‚ No. 1 (Mar.‚ 1978)‚ pp. 47-55 Published by: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages‚ Inc. (TESOL) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3585790 . Accessed: 29/04/2014 07:01 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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can be defined by the dominant discourses in society‚ such as gender and sexuality. Michael Foucault’s definition of discourse is more than just the ways of thinking and producing meaning through communication. The notion of discourse defined by Foucault have become closely associated with power and knowledge (Miller‚ 1990). Dominant discourse demonstrates how reality has been socially constructed. They can be found in many forms of media and communication. Discourses become dominant because they are
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1301‚ these past two weeks have given me a better understanding of ethos‚ logos and pathos appeals. Being in a discourse community has made me put these appeals into perspective. Understanding that being in that community made me a stronger woman. This will give me a chance to show you‚ my professor and classmates that softball is indeed a sport. I will prove why I attended this discourse community in softball at a young age to now by explaining the mental state of understanding the rules‚ the physical
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history‚ there are major differences between mainstream Public and Oppositional discourse. From these differences‚ controversy and tensions arise. First‚ there is the difference of public discourse of having more of a structural basis to it than the marginalized group who has more of the ability to speak out with no restraints. Another‚ are the facts that are being reported directly from the source (public discourse) and the way the media (marginalized group) will report something. Native Americans
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Spoken Discourse Assignment Introduction In this paper‚ the aim is to apply different methods of discourse analysis to a selected extract of transcribed language to establish who holds the power during the interaction. In a normal interview situation‚ the interviewer will control the topic change of the interaction and ask the questions and the interviewee will respond. One of the aims is to establish whether this is the case‚ and to see if this remains constant throughout the extract. The initial
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CONCLUSION As we see by analyzing Michel Foucault’s chapter‚ Panopticism‚ and Dominique Moran’s book‚ Carceral Spaces: Mobility and Agency in Imprisonment and Migrant Detention‚ prison architecture has evolved from confining those who were considered abnormal because they violated the law to mentally impacting prisoners by making them paranoid‚ scared‚ and frustrated. Initially‚ prisons were visible to the public because they were built in the center of the city to allow society to see what they
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Critical Analysis Essay Draft 1. Discourse means “the way of being” in a community. Discourse community is where a group of people involved and share their opinion‚ knowledge about a particular topic. Conflicts can be create when rebellion happens in a discourse community. Rebellion in a discourse community try to change the rules which creates conflict with leaders of the particular discourse community. It changes the particular discourse community or creates a new discourse community with new rules.
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In a business environment one can expect a lot of reading and writing coming from the business itself when it comes to keeping track from income statements to all the investments in the company or business. Reading and writing is found in many discourse communities‚ it can be a group that shares the same goals or interests. There are many ways in which we can incorporate our reading‚ writing‚ research and critical thinking skills that apply to our daily routine. I’ve developed in my understanding
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Discourse on Colonialism - Group Work Connections with Things Fall Apart: In “Discourse on Colonialism” mentioned on page two‚ paragraph three‚ the author makes a connection with the misinterpretation of how the Europeans thought that those who did not practice Christianity were savages. “...is Christian pedantry‚ which laid down the dishonest equations Christianity=civilization‚ paganism=savagery‚ from which there could not but ensue abominable colonialist and racist consequences‚ whose victims
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Well-known philosopher Michel Foucault wrote a book called ‘The Birth of the Clinic (1973)’‚ the main idea behind the book is that Foucault trails how medical knowledge was transferred by scientific methods in the eighteenth century. He recorded that the doctors based their treatments on observation of the patients symptoms rather than referencing books to analyse the type of disease the patient may have. Through observation‚ Foucault was able to develop the concept of ‘surveillance’ whereby‚ patients
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