To Indians, both within and outside India, the Internet is an alternative public sphere to hold discourses with those who share a similarity of interests.
With great spirit and diligence, Hughes is able to piece together a surprisingly vivid portrait of the hairy, slovenly son of a stonemason and midwife, who spends a lot of time at the gymnasium and holds philosophical discourses at shoe shops.
Foucault holds that discourses are what constitute and empower the subjects that make history.
Some forms of scientific realism, for example, hold that discourse about the theoretical entities of physics is not simply shorthand for discourse about, say, meter readings and patterns on cloud chamber photographs.
He would sit on the cane-backed sofa and hold stately discourse there with a visitor equally old, crossing and recrossing his legs, exposing a length of hairless white shin and the high black top of a buttoned shoe.
Moreover, research has shown that this also holds for discourse genres traditionally considered as highly standardized in their rituals and formulas, written business communication being a case in point.
Second, the study can contribute to the ongoing academic and policy discourses held regarding household resilience to food insecurity and the role of forests in mitigating food shortages.
You see it all the time, so what does it mean?" Mr. Taunton says his nonprofit organization tries to promote civil discourse with those holding different opinions.
And it's that -- our predisposition to discussing what's wrong -- that is holding the value of our discourse around this issue back from its true potential.
Then A holds in a discourse iff A is true at some world in M. Since A may hold in one world but not in another, both A and ¬A may hold in a discourse.
