Behar and Weiss are out to broaden their investigations in order to present a more accurate picture of the conflict, so as to change the discourse and bring about policies that will be more effective for peace.
It's really frustrating that a completely, demonstrably false narrative about the crisis continues to dominate the discourse; and I'd hoped for better from Ken.
Sounding a cautionary note about the "discourse of hope and expectation" associated with hepatitis C treatment, Magdalena Harris, a qualitative researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, critically reflects on treatment as prevention.
Of course these brief remarks about the discourse function of tense and aspect barely touch the tip of the iceberg.
Banners with the word "migrants" crossed out and replaced with the word "people," made a point about the discourse surrounding these men, women, and children who have lost their lives.
They arouse many of the same fears about the lowering of the public discourse and the taking of undeserved liberties.
That's the sad thing about economic discourse, and the reason I keep talking about zombies: the same demonstrably wrong ideas just keep coming back, and back, and back, from the Treasury view on demand to the trust fund bait and switch.
Similarly, certain intuitions about reciprocal moral obligation are picking up on real facts about the logic of discourse and about generic social dynamics — on principles that were true even before humans came along and illustrated them.
The spring festival of Movement Research is a scrappier version of that model; organized by artists, it gives those in the New York dance world a chance to stop complaining about the lack of discourse and do something about it.
The Obama era often seemed more the Tea Party era, and the result was a strange but not unpredictable role reversal: conservatives celebrated the importance of public protest in a vibrant democracy, while liberals fretted about uncivil discourse and the dangers of rousing rabble.
