A discourse community is a group of people who share a particular interest and use a certain register of language to communicate with each other. ... We communicate with each other in many ways, either by email, telephone, text, face to face, social media or letters and the language we use allows us to get things done, however the language and communication method we chose to use will vary dependent on the discourse community. ... Another example of a discourse community I belong to and that changes my language and behaviour is when teaching dance. ... One discourse community I belong to where...

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So Descartes has relinquished anything he could call into doubt and is rebuilding a method for certainty. ... In terms of the aforesaid claim, Descartes' claim that his conclusions are based on self-evident intuition is coherent with his method of doubt. ... In discourse four, he expresses this when he says that there is nothing that reassures him he is speaking the truth other than conceiving "very clearly and very distinctly."" Thus Descartes is unable to claim to become certain of his own existence on the basis of the method of doubt articulated in the first meditation. ... The ...

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An Examination of Discourse Practices Within an I.T. Training Environment An Examination of Discourse Practices within an I.T. ... There are typical discursive moves and methods normally employed by trainers to regulate knowledge and maintain command in the training room. ... Discourse access and control may be defined in respect of both content and structure of text or talk. ... However, it may be argued that as the dominant participant the doctor is controlling the student by this choice of discourse type and the preference for it in this order of discourse (p39, Fairclough, 20...

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Foucault's first three books are considered to be a trilogy, exploring the method of archaeology. After publishing The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969), which described his method more explicitly, Foucault shifted to a genealogical approach influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of history that accounted for some of the deficiencies in his earlier approach.[6] In "Questions of Method, " Foucault participated in a roundtable discussion reflecting on his approach to the study of the history of the penal system in Discipline and Punish (1975). ... He put it beautifully in the ope...

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Design studies comprises research programs that emphasize on the study of design practice, design discourse, design products as well as the study of design history and theory. ... He begins with the 'design methods' movement in Great Britain. ... Archer was first generation theorist and his method was to categorized design into a set of distinct topics which attracted many criticism too. ... Victor Margolin, drawing from John Chris Jones' writing (Design Methods: Seeds of Human Future, 1981), explains the system as "operating holes of which modern life is being formed and...

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Washington, DuBois, and Racial Discourse As the dialogues on race wear on - and as America, as a country, continues to suffer from racial fractures that run deep indeed - the historical figures (meaning just that - the figurative modern representations) of Booker T. ... This is not to say that the lesson DuBois teaches is superior to Washington's; it is only to point out a difference between their use of discourse. ... Which method is most effective is only decided in a sole person's mind and is not our concern. ...

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Secondly, this method depends entirely upon a categorical scheme of organization that simply divides any topic into three stiff sections. ... It is seldom used in any form of academic discourse outside of high school, as the deductive reasoning can easily weaken the argument and make it difficult to discuss complicated issues. ...

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For three months, their conversational tics, sexual inclinations, methods of ablution, personal obsessions and much less have been on display on the small screen each night and on the Internet. ... The confected rudeness of the host of The Weakest Link, the scheming and treachery of Survivor, the humiliation of the weekly public eviction vote of Big Brother - these are in danger of being seen as normal, desirable parts of human discourse by the children who watch these shows. ...

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It followed the need for social change and offered counter hegemonic discourse in the sense that rallied for change by protest and resisting authority. ... Third Cinema can also be seen to defiantly oppose the dominant Hollywood style's misinformed representations of much of the third world, which can be seen to largely oreintalist in method and execution. Such clichéd stereotypes (re)produced by Hollywood film, it can be argued, are part of colonial discourse and draw parallels with the assumed notion that western civilisation is the pinnacle of human evolution. ... Such anti- co...

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Boe argues that this process can be seen in almost every aspect of organizational discourse. ... ''The only difference that exists is in the method of influence" (p. 206). ... In this context, one could effectively argue that power and politics are types of influence that will impact the development of organizational discourse. How Power and Politics Impact the Organization Given the realization that politics and power are each variant of influence, it is important to consider how these issues impact discourse in the organization. ...

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In that, identifying the methods used to have a successful communication between the two parties (British and Italian). The methods used specifically address: accommodations in intercultural communication, the linguistic features involved in such methods which adhere to being polite, and the faults in miscommunication. The results were obtained by taking a "triangulated methodological approach essentially discourse-analytical in focus, with an additional qualitative analysis of the ethnographic data, and aided by corpus linguistic tools to retrieve recurrent phraseology typical of the b...

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I will argue that the problems and failures that accompanied privatization of land was symptomatic of the problems encountered more generally in the economy : the already very difficult task of transforming an economy was compounded by trying to apply Global development discourses without due regard to local realities. ... Some of these discourses, such as the Tragedy of the Commons, frequently override any consideration of local realities and variability in Mongolia. ... It was deemed that the traditional methods that the pastoralists used were unsustainable.. ... The Global discours...

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Other research has attempted to clarify the definitions of each method. ... Rather than simply commentate on the two research methods, this paper aims to compare and contrast quantitative and qualitative research methods. ... Finally, the discussion will explore the issues surrounding the ethics of the two methods. This essay aims to demonstrate that both research methods provide invaluable and insightful information for the social sciences, and that no method is better than the other. ... Typical experimental methods of qualitative research include transcriptions, interviews and discourse an...

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Also, the fact that the "masters" of these bonded laborers are loan givers is exemplary of a capitalistic method used to justify this exploitative relationship". ... The difficulties that face the subaltern are also influencing international political discourse that suggests that neoliberalism and capitalism are efficient and democratic. ... On an international level, globalization has created a global elite class through the rhetoric of neoliberal discourse. ... Its structure is supported under the "free market democracy"" that is endorsed by the leading discourse of neoliberalism (Harvey ...

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I will argue that political, religious and artistic discourses were appropriated and interlocked by different agents in order to achieve their respective objectives. ... Malcolm X had quite successfully appropriated the religious discourse of Islam and instrumentalized it to political ends. ... Here again we find the method of inversion, as "incarcerated people were central to the revolutionary aims of the Black Arts movement both in the works they wrote and in the symbol they provided of imprisonment in a radically oppressive society" (Borstelmann 2011: 101). ...

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Socrates engages in a dialectic with Thrasymachus, Polemarchus and Cephalus, a method which leads to the asking and answering of questions which directs to a logical refutation and thus leading to a convincing argument of the true nature of justice. ... Through the discourse between Cephalus, Polemarchus and Thrasymachus, Socrates' thoughts and actions towards justice are exemplified. Though their views are different and even opposed, the way all three discourse about justice and power reveal that they assume the relation between the two to be separate. ... It is through this systemati...

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Ambiguity is defined as a property of a linguistic string that is used with two of more meanings within ordinary discourse. ... A lexical definition can be found in a dictionary (lexicon) as it is simply a report of how the word is used in standard discourse. ... One method of conceptual analysis uses a priori knowledge. ... This would mean that our methods of searching for carbon based life with helical replicating nucleic acid sequences may be completely fallible on other plants. ...

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Abstract This paper looks at the constructivist approach to the study of international relations. The constructivist approach is defined in terms of the philosophical underpinnings of the approach and the scientific/social scientific premises that highlight this social theory of international relat...

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Among the myriad of changes experienced by Americans during this time was a massive shift in the industrial complex, a dramatic re-imagining of the role of women in society, and the development of new racisms and stereotypes within the national discourse. ... This can be seen as one of the worse methods of discrimination in modern American history. ...

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The narrator plunges in the mind of Septimus and reports in free indirect discourse the thoughts and feelings of this character towards the scene. ... Virginia Woolf called this method "tunneling process", the various characters´ thoughts of the past, providing the reader with information of a certain character, serve as tunnels to the interiority of this character. ... In this free indirect discourse the reader learns that Clarissa and Peter saw things differently, they argued often. ... In doing so, he takes on the tone and style of the respective character, and is able to express...

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The French feminists in particular construe "woman" as any radical force that subverts the concepts, assumptions, and structures of traditional male discourse -- the realism, rationality, mastery, and explanation that underline it. ... This type of critical discourse often takes an explicitly and aggressively ideological stance, stressing the important contribution of literature and literary c...

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Opponents of the death penalty discourse that the practice has been abused. ... Just because an execution method causes pain does not make it cruel and unusual. ... The death penalty is a very secure method used by the government and is not going anywhere anytime soon. ...

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Finally, after traveling all over Europe, Descartes decided to end his travels and reside in Holland in 1628 where he began to write his three famous books, Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy and Principles of Philosophy where his passion for philosophy and mathematics could shine. ... To insure the integrity of his newly acquired understanding of reality, he uses the method of doubt. It is only through this method that he can grasp the true nature of reality. After establishing the existence of himself, God, and the external world through this method, Descartes feels he now...

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Using the Cartesian method, the statement that "I think" is unique because it is the only premise that has the property of having its truth confirmed by the act of doubting it. ... In the terms of the above argument, Descartes" claim that his conclusions are based on self-evident intuition is consistent with his method of doubt. However, in terms of this same Cartesian method, there appears to be a fundamental problem with the claim that Descartes can be certain that he exists. ... In discourse four, he expresses this when he says that there is nothing that assures him he is speaking the truth...

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The story causes the reader to analyze the dialogue in order to uncover the abortion discourse. After many readers discover this, they cease to continue investigating the other discourses present. ... As the story unfolds into the abortion discourse, that realization covers a hidden meaning within the text. ...

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