But it failed to move beyond the parameters of dominant discourse on religion and ethnicity and thus brought nothing new.
Sadly, the parameters of intellectual discourse in the West have become narrower and narrower.
"Until recently, religious institutions, academia, and media set out the parameters of acceptable discourse, and it ranged from the unthinkable to the radical to the acceptable to policy," Simas said.
This view can be interpreted either as a doctrine about the nature of God or as a thesis about the parameters of responsible discourse about God (in the latter case it is called the via negativa, or negative path).
However, it's also important not to set the parameters of acceptable discourse so narrowly that criticism can't be made.
As is the case in so many conversations, the right has effectively maintained control over the parameters of political discourse on the subject of abortion by baiting us into defending our own humanity.
As if to underline the dimensions of responsibility that will be vested in the U.S. in this rapidly technologically flattening world, with its burgeoning population necessitating the doubling of food production by 2050, an event took place in Cambodia that may well set the parameters of future discourse on this vital issue.
That it's within the parameters of accepted political discourse.
Last mentioned was the parameter called then the 'style of discourse' (Halliday et al., 92 93): Third and last of the dimensions of register classification is 'style of discourse', which refers to the relations among the participants.
'Mode of discourse' is the next parameter to be discussed (Halliday et al., [1964]: 91): '… this [i.e., 'mode of discourse', RH] refers to the medium or mode of the language activity, and it is this that determines, or rather correlates with, the role played by the language activity in the situation.
