Although the initial focus on ECEC was to free up mothers' time so that they can take part in the labour market (Mahon 2002), in line with scientific evidence on the positive outcomes of ECEC for the children themselves, the European discourse started to focus more on high-quality, holistic, complex, integrated, inter-sectoral and inclusive provision (Herczog 2012).
His meandering discourse started with his view of the evil effects of divorce on a trader's mind -- honestly, his rhetoric sounded like a preacher doing a modern riff on Reefer Madness, divorce edition.
It is simply an observation that much that dulls the passion in our discourse starts with our tendency to shy from the existential.
It is time to reclaim "fieldwork" and deconstruct this fabricated neo-colonial vocabulary that we have allowed to pollute humanitarian discourse, starting with this very term: field.
"The time to stop C-51 was when new Islamophobic discourses started gaining traction over a decade ago.
Each item on the discourse completion task started with a brief description of the topic and then for agreements and disagreements gave language learners a specific opinion.
Halliday (2004: 89) uses the term 'discourse-initiating units' to describe the elements with which a discourse starts.
Rather than trigger national policy change, however, the discourse became the starting point for local action, epitomized in the efforts to address widespread housing abandonment through land banks and greening strategies, spearheaded by an informal alliance of local officials and both local and national sources of expertise, largely outside academia.
Whereas Virgil Aldrich (1963) proclaims the term 'work of art' useful because of its ambivalence, others (e.g., Boas 1937) have found the pervasive ambiguity in the discourse about artworks (starting with a process/product conflation) troublesome and in need of clarification.
My consciousness arranges my karma But as with the best discourses, what started off as set pieces flowed into a shared experience from which we witnessed in real time Mike Daisey coming to an awareness of his personal dead end, a self-created limitation.
