Sentence examples for By discourse from inspiring English sources

By discourse, we refer to language, images, systems of thought and symbols that represent and/or construct individuals and aspects of their social world.

It draws on French philosopher Michel Foucault's writings on sexuality and his notion that bodies are given meaning by discourse and social structures of knowledge and power.

But it is not merely a question of mental illness; physical illness, too, is remedied in part by medication or surgery and in part by discourse.

It is hardly surprising, then, that many commentators have not been persuaded by discourse ethics as a normative ethics.

The third category points to the fact that worldviews can be built by discourse by means of certain cultural expressions or milestones legitimizing social order.

The first and more widely used model by discourse analysts was proposed by Michael Halliday (1985, 1994) who later collaborated with Christian Matthiessen (Halliday and Matthiessen 2004, 2014) and, together, they made amendments to the original system of Transitivity.

Perhaps sensitive to this contrast, Mario Cuomo began our conversation by discoursing on the senselessness of political labels, a theme on which he has been riffing for 25 years.

In his final work, The History of Sexuality, this controversial thinker argued that far from being the universal urge Freud identified, libido is shaped by "discourses" of sexuality that not only regulate but also shape and promote desire.

By discourses, they mean "a set of categories and concepts embodying specific assumptions, judgments, contentions, dispositions, and capabilities".

The analysis assumed that young people were both influenced by discourses and engaged in shaping and reproducing them.

The predatory masculine sexuality discourse offers less scope for adaptation and it might need to be countered by discourses that discourage risk taking.