In Orientalism, Edward Said (1935 2003) applies Foucault's method of discourse analysis to 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century writings about the Middle East by British and French novelists, travelers, and academics (Said 1978, 201).
He argued that scientific discourses were a method of selection, that is, they selected and isolated specific entities in (originally chaotic) reality or nature, defining them as facts, even though they only represented a kind of abstract reality.
Because it's giving you results with numbers, and that's what we doctors want" (M1)(GS1) Also from the perspective of "science", EBM was seen in some discourses as a method of reviewing one's habitual clinical work in a critical manner and posing questions to be answered based on findings from published studies.
In this discourse, exploration arose as a method of crucial importance, for it helped senior residents to fix gaps in their competence development.
Online learning is a new field in which new tools, methods of discourse, information resources, and learning environments are appearing daily.
Hōnen set about to accomplish this in his major writing, Collection on the Nembutsu Selected in the Primal Vow (Senchaku hongan nembutsu-shū), composed in kanbun (Chinese) and addressed to an audience versed in Buddhist erudition and its methods of discourse.
For example, they can be incorporated into Systemic Functional Linguistics, but can equally well be used with other methods of discourse analysis.
The mainly interpretative methods of discourse analysis and the possibility to integrate both quantitative as well as qualitative data could serve as an additional advantage for interdisciplinary futures research aims.1.1
In this respect Austin's approach contrasts with, say, cognitive frame [ 19], Leximancer [ 20] and logic [ 21] analysis methods of discourse analysis.
