This is a version of radical meaning holism: signs get their meaning not from their reference to external things but from their relations to all of the other signs in a system of discourse.
This is different from its usage as a system of voicing of appraisals in discourse semantics.
Facebook should have a town hall process of notice and comment and a system of voting to encourage input and discourse on amendments to these Principles or to the Rights and Responsibilities.
Discourses are essentially a system of meaning, "an ensemble of ideas, concepts and categorisations through which meaning is allocated to social and physical phenomenon, and which is produced and reproduces in an identifiable set of practices" [ 21][ p. 45].
"Leafleting in heavily visited shopping areas has a very high value in our system of political discourse," the court said, in an opinion written by Associate Justice Daniel O'Hern.
Finland, starting a decade or two later, revamped its innovation system but anchored it around its old system of institutional discourse between business, capital, workers, and the state.
With the Elsevier boycott, the Finch report in the UK, and the launch of a number of innovative new schemes in publishing open-access research and data (including Figshare, F1000 Research, eLife, PeerJ and of course GigaScience), 2012 has been talked of as the year of an "academic spring" that has started to shake up the centuries old, stuffy and closed system of scientific discourse [ 1].
Four features of discourse, as distinct from language as a system, are of central importance for the analogy Ricoeur makes between texts and actions.
This is a useful capability, especially with thousands of scattered students taking the same online course, but instructional management systems persist in a use of discourse technology that limits possibilities for knowledge building discourse.
As James Poniewozik, the television critic for the Times, wrote, "How do you spoof a candidate who treats campaigning like a roast?" In addition, the increasing deluge of topical quips and one-liners that fill social media can make satire seem less like an island of sanity in the sewer system of American political discourse and more like just another crap-filled pipeline.
