The term "apply discourse" is not commonly used in written English.
To use it, you would need to explain the term. For example, "John applied discourse analysis to study the conversations between the participants."
Based on a research design that incorporated ethnography and applied discourse analysis, three master teachers were selected and observed during formal teaching hours as well as outside the classroom.
Using New York as a case study, this paper applies discourse analysis to three newspapers to analyze the portrayal of farmers as a significant stakeholder group within the hydraulic fracturing debate.
I apply argumentative discourse analysis (Hajer, 1995) to a series of documents, statements, observations and interviews to identify and analyze the power of this discourse in the UNFCCC and in particular on the reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) negotiations.
I applied Foucauldian discourse analysis to textual data gathered from relevant publications.
To our knowledge, this study is the first to have applied a discourse lens to telehealth and telecare technologies.
In one you are tangible and rules of polite social discourse apply; in the other, anything goes – the mean-spirited nastiness that permeates social media thrives on anonymity and distance.
(We can ignore the unhelpful 'Something exists' which is allowed by standard first order logic purely for convenience as few would need to apply logic to discourse about an empty universe for which in any case there are separate rules for determining validity or otherwise).
Apply this basic principle to everything you read, every piece of fashionable jargon that is slipped into the discourse, apply it to terminology designed to hide the reality.
Apparently, their concerns about preserving "the civil discourse" apply only to liberals -- as far as they're concerned, right-wingers like Limbaugh have free rein to be as uncivil and disgusting as they want.
He describes these people as: Men whose minds are much enslaved to earthly affairs all the week, cannot disengage or break the chain of their thoughts so suddenly, as to apply to a discourse that is wholly foreign to what they have most at heart".
