As Escobar (1995: 5) applying Foucault's work on the dynamics of discourse and power in the representation of social reality pointedly claimed, the "colonization of reality" makes possible "a certain order of discourse produces permissible modes of being and thinking while disqualifying and even making others impossible".
It is a definition of critique that is notably close to the liberal order of discourse, which is preoccupied with the problem of too much government, of inserting economy into political practice (Foucault, 2008[1979b]).
The obvious danger with counter-cultural styles of life is that these modes of life always risk becoming accepted by a liberal order of discourse that prides itself on its apparent permissiveness.
He (Giddens 1984: 31) goes on to list as institutional orders, modes of discourse, political institutions, economic institutions and legal institutions.
In this regard, we agree with Sarangi and Roberts [ 43] when they point out: "What counts as legitimate professional discourse will depend on the range of discourses available within an institutional order" (p. 15).
By inevitably challenging the prevailing narrative of the hitherto dominant male order, the discourse of compassion has represented nothing short of a frontal assault on the main tenets of all established institutions, from politics to economics, from the academy to the media, with sports being no exception.
The approach taken here models the natural ordering in discourse structure of a scientific abstract as a sequential machine, employing Conditional Random Fields (CRFs), a popular and successful method across a number of natural language processing (NLP) tasks.
Russia still publicly clings to its obstinate stances, but there is talk of it repositioning itself in order to hold a new kind of discourse with the US President for the four years to come.
This provides a perspective that brings order and coherence to the topic of discourse.
Research into the effectiveness of discourse can determine the order in which arguments should be presented.
