This is similar to, and related to, the transfer of "geography" from the material to the immaterial, as in the development of the discipline of "cultural geography" and as in Gu (2002) notion of "discourse geography".
My study, therefore, hopes to engage with CDA's notion of discourse, that which not only locates language in its sociopolitical context, but also which provides it with a conceptually more powerful theorization that inscribes in it the possibility of change while, at the same, defining its structural limitations.
For example, Fraser finds value in the theories of thinkers such as Foucault, Bourdieu, and Habermas (among others) because their notions of discourse include a rich array of historically embedded social practices (1997, 151 152).
Central to the above question is the notion of a "discourse" around human sexuality and the "truth" and "power" that were produced through such discourses in postmodern, postindustrial, capitalistic societies of the West.
What Preminger admired about America was the openness of its culture; he disdained ideologues and took seriously the notion of civil discourse and the exchange of opinion.
"This is an affront to any notion of civil discourse, such as the kind you have called for on other occasions," Tom Waseleski, the group's president, wrote afterward to Mr. Perry.
For a man who had a perfect verbal score on the SAT, and whom friends, family, teammates and coaches describe as having "no filter," the brickbat that Kluwe gorilla-swung at the notion of civil discourse became as much the story as the message itself.
hIn her discussion of what she means by 'logic' Mol draws on the notion of a discourse within which "words, materialities and practices hang together in a specific, historically and culturally situated way" [ 1].
These behaviors challenge our notion of civilized public discourse.
The birth of the liberal blogosphere, with its ability to bypass the big media institutions and conduct conversations within a like-minded community, represents a revival of the Deweyan challenge to our Lippmann-like understanding of what constitutes "news" and, in doing so, might seem to revive the philosopher's notion of a genuinely democratic discourse.
In order to extend Dummett's verificationism (cf., e.g., Dummett 1996) from mathematical to empirical discourse, a notion of "empirical negation" has been suggested (see De 2011, 2013).
