The phrase "adopting the discourse of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the act of embracing or using a particular way of speaking or writing associated with a specific group or ideology.
Example: "The author is adopting the discourse of environmental activists to highlight the urgency of climate change."
Alternatives: "embracing the language of" or "utilizing the rhetoric of".
We do not have any of the answers but would like to ask the same question Aidan asks: "Since the 2000s, academic managers and leaders have adopted the discourse of neoliberalism, presented as neutral truth, 'common sense' or realism.
Although Stone does not explicitly use the expression "double consciousness", it is evidently at work in her suggestion that transsexuals have learned to adopt the discourse of medicalization while doing so within a subaltern transsexual culture which fails to accurately correspond to the official account.
Focusing on depictions of this iconic 'disease of empire' in nineteenth-century and postcolonial fiction, Jessica Howell shows that authors such as Charles Dickens, Henry James, H. Rider Haggard, Olive Schreiner and Rudyard Kipling did not simply adopt the discourses of malarial containment and cure offered by colonial medicine.
They write: 'Becoming a member of a community of practice means adopting the discourse that is recognized and used by the established members of … [specialist] communities' (Colombi and Schleppegrell 2002: 7).
It was mainly developed by NGOs out of a need to capture a wide array of categories of children under one umbrella definition, but it was also quickly adopted in the discourse of international intergovernmental organisations.
Second, the script theory of guidance builds on sociocultural perspectives, adopting the view that discourse activities on the social plane precede and shape the structure of complex cognitive skills (i.e., the Genetic Law of Development; Vygotsky, 1978).
Trump has adopted the political equivalent of don't-enter-my-room rhetoric: the discourse of sovereignty.
By Masha Gessen October 16, 2017 Donald Trump has adopted the political equivalent of don't-enter-my-room rhetoric: the discourse of sovereignty.
The World Bank's decision to not adopt the language of the Decent Work Agenda could be interpreted as an attempt to redefine the discourse of work and exert their power and influence to occupy this policy space internationally.
"It was easier to play on the discourse of the infidel versus the righteous citizen," said Ms. Varzi, but the opposition movement adopted the whole Islamic discourse.
