Sentence examples for modern discourse from inspiring English sources

It's a part of modern discourse.

The modern discourse of anthropology crystallized in the 1860s, fired by advances in biology, philology, and prehistoric archaeology.

In the process, a few myths that have crept into modern discourse are identified.

Such is one of the more surreal aspects of modern discourse, which lends itself to an amusing parlour game.

There is little room for the female perpetrator or the male victim in mainstream modern discourse around violence and gender.

A widespread insistence upon prophetic and ecstatic power in literature seems at present to be undermining the complex, irony-minded formalism that has dominated modern discourse.

In Nietzschean fashion, Foucault exposes history conceived as the origin and development of an identical subject, e.g., "modernity," as a fiction modern discourses invent after the fact.

Her academic research investigates modern discourses of architecture and the city, with a particular focus on historical contexts of political transition.

Sutton-Smith focuses on play theories rooted in seven distinct "rhetorics"—the ancient discourses of Fate, Power, Communal Identity, and Frivolity and the modern discourses of Progress, the Imaginary, and the Self.

In the book, he analyzes an astonishing range of historical and modern discourses from the 19th-century Sokoto Caliphate through the colonial period and the tumult of early post-colonial years to the present day to argue that most Nigerian Muslims see Islamic religious values and sharia law as compliments to, not detractors from, democratic institutions.

Nevertheless, modern discourses were interspersed among traditional ones.