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It has frequently been claimed that the use of the passive in scientific discourse is a way of not mentioning the identity of the agent, and thus making the discourse more impersonal.
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The people who come to refute that particular tape make the discourse very vulnerable.
According to Seoane "a basic function of the passive in scientific discourse... is to defocus or suppress the agent in order to make the discourse impersonal" (2006, 201).
Sure, DeLay was awful and unethical and he made the discourse toxic, but he was only trying to be good to the party.
The combination of the resurgence in effort and interest in malaria, plus the impetus towards research collaboration through partnerships, meant that malaria policy was being implemented in a highly dynamic environment, making the resulting scientific and policy discourses less predictable and fast changing.
But that does not affect the more general philosophical point the fictionalist is typically concerned to make: that the discourse is not ontologically committing.
What a difference four years make in the discourse of hope and change and the course of cinematic urbanism.
The media should not be treating them as learned experts with contributions to make to the discourse on U.S. national security.
So the problem is not that the discourse makes the work of pro-immigrant advocates harder, but that it renders untenable the lives of people who contribute to American culture and economy miserable, along with those of the people who love them and look like them.
Leading a great country demands a deeper level of discourse, and it also demands a President able to use the mass media to make that discourse understandable to large numbers of people.
At a recent weekend symposium on the role of the curator in contemporary culture, organized by the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, Dave Hickey made the interesting point that "the discourse of art is about conflict of interest".
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