"power of discourse" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in a sentence to emphasize the idea of language having a great influence on social opinion or beliefs. For example, "The power of discourse has become incredibly important in today's political climate."
Thus, the constitutive power of discourse is exercised in policy texts and interpretations of policy.
The fantasy of gender, moreover, is historically contingent and variable because it reflects whatever is intelligible permitted by the regulatory power of discourse to be thought at any given moment.
Drawing from Foucault, particularly his concept of the 'meticulous rituals' of power [ 29], Butler described performativity as "…that reiterative power of discourse to produce the phenomena that it regulates and constrains" (Butler quoted in [ 30]).
I apply argumentative discourse analysis (Hajer, 1995) to a series of documents, statements, observations and interviews to identify and analyze the power of this discourse in the UNFCCC and in particular on the reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) negotiations.
The power of Western discourse does not mean that they really hold the truth," says the newspaper.
Following this approach, the diagnostic process, in a first step, is a theoretical concept ordering signs and symptoms to diseases which takes place within the configurative power of the discourses.
As Upendra Baxi has argued, "the power of human rights discourse has been critically appropriated by global capital".
However the power of the Capitalist discourse does not let the traditional societies incapacitate to defy the economic self and bring forth a moderate, contended, traditional self to harmonize with the nature.
Second, the rising institutional power of individual rights discourse and its increasing penetration of prisons (Galembert & Rostaing, 2014) also constitutes new opportunities upon which Muslims acting at the grassroots level could draw in order to accommodate corporatist church laws from below.
That they feel unable to easily break social mores highlights strongly the power of the dominant discourse.
Reacting to EirGrid's exploration of underground routes for the Grid West project, a commentary in the same newspaper summarised the controversy in a nutshell: "The centralisation of power stifles discourse so that public consultation can be seen as an unwelcome irritant.
