It is simply an observation that much that dulls the passion in our discourse starts with our tendency to shy from the existential.
Although the initial focus on ECEC was to free up mothers' time so that they can take part in the labour market (Mahon 2002), in line with scientific evidence on the positive outcomes of ECEC for the children themselves, the European discourse started to focus more on high-quality, holistic, complex, integrated, inter-sectoral and inclusive provision (Herczog 2012).
And then, as more and more women came forward with allegations, with several of them going on the record and allowing the media to publish their names, the discourse started to change.
His meandering discourse started with his view of the evil effects of divorce on a trader's mind -- honestly, his rhetoric sounded like a preacher doing a modern riff on Reefer Madness, divorce edition.
"The time to stop C-51 was when new Islamophobic discourses started gaining traction over a decade ago.
Halliday (2004: 89) uses the term 'discourse-initiating units' to describe the elements with which a discourse starts.
Here we set out to scrutinize the key claims harnessed in support of this revolutionary narrative, in scientific and lay discourses alike, starting from a brief historical and epistemological reappraisal of the various strands of epigenetic thinking, often productively blurred in their distinctions or at times frankly competing with each other.
After years of financial and economic crisis, we finally have a chance to change the global discourse and start fixing the broken system.
Contrary to what we are taught in our civics classes, political discourse rarely starts with issue research or personal conviction.
Rather than trigger national policy change, however, the discourse became the starting point for local action, epitomized in the efforts to address widespread housing abandonment through land banks and greening strategies, spearheaded by an informal alliance of local officials and both local and national sources of expertise, largely outside academia.
