The part of a sentence "shape discourse" is correct and can be used in written English
It refers to the idea that language and how it is constructed can influence or shape the conversation or discussion taking place. Example: "The use of inclusive language in political debates can shape discourse and promote equality among different groups."
So what the government thought was fit for public consumption to help build its own case and shape discourse — this happens everywhere, of course — we can't know, because then the terrorists might win.
"When Xi Jinping took the top job, I think he understood the power of the internet to shape discourse and to influence the populace so he set about making sure that he could keep it all under control," explains Charlie Smith, co-founder of FreeWeibo.com, a website that monitors content that is censored from Weibo.
It is a post-party form factor that will shape discourse and decision-making for 2012 and beyond.
Following McCright and Dunlap's (2010) analysis of interest groups that attempt to shape discourse and knowledge about climate change, its causes, and potential impacts, and in line with hypotheses H1a and H1b, we categorize a diverse range of groups as environmentally oriented interests and several groups as agricultural interests.
Yet, more direct connections to contemporary networks that shape discourses of ecology, conservation, and human-wildlife interaction may place her work in better conversation with domestic and foreign policies.
Moving away from a binary framework of authentic/inauthentic or relativism/universalism, I use a transnational analysis to track the ways in which both 'global' and 'local' understandings shape discourses on sexuality, culture and identity.
Further, insofar as they reconfigure objects and occurrences as agents and actions, ghost stories provide unique insights into the cognitive, linguistic, and interactional processes shaping discourse anaphora in narrative contexts.
Through an emphasis upon measurable, standardised aspects of early childhood practice such as credentialling (Osgood 2010) and qualifications (Urban 2008), policy initiatives can conflate professionalisation with professionalism, thereby shaping discourses of professionalism in limited ways (as Osgood 2006 reports, for example).
Although the relationship is complex, the media has been previously described as 'highly influential' 10 in shaping discourses around health.
Mass media are the nexus between public and policy agenda and are highly influential in shaping discourses about health and research.
The mass media has been described as "the nexus between public and policy agenda" and as "highly influential in shaping discourses about health and research", although it is acknowledged that how news media affect public perceptions of diseases is "complex and diverse" (p569)[ 6].
