Sentence examples for which discourse from inspiring English sources

Not only did that result kill the notion of British party politics, it demonstrated that in Scotland "nation" (and its associated identity) had become the dominant axis upon which discourse, public policy and even crude party politics turned.

The binary oppositions (man/woman, gay/straight) on which discourse, and thus subjectivity, are founded are revealed to be not fixed, but fluid, fictional – and can, therefore, be destabilised.

This was found to be one interactional locus in which discourse identities became relevant for the turn-in-progress.

The study first looks at the museum apparatuses, through which discourse is publicly invited, produced and presented, to then study visitors' responses as moral discourse.

The question of interrelationship becomes especially urgent in the political sphere, where different discourses intertwine and lead to competing conclusions, or when issues arise in which discourse types cannot be cleanly separated, so that the standards of cogency become obscure or deeply contested (McCarthy 1991, chap. 7; 1998).

For Hayden White, troping is "the soul of discourse," the mechanism without which discourse "cannot do its work or achieve its ends".

Even small children know which discourses are legitimised by the grownups.

This leads to a situation in which discourses about immigration are often more restrictive than policies in practice.

Inspired by Foucault's (1998) concept of governmentality, this work seeks to deconstruct the practices of the government by unraveling the historical conditions in which discourses about education reform took place in Taiwanese society.

The analysis took the form of a sociological discourse analysis (see Ruiz 2009) that involved three levels: firstly, textual analysis in which discourses relevant to the topic from the media reports were characterized and a content analysis of the media texts done.

In order to achieve these aims, an extensive survey is being conducted to cover these different discourse fields and to explore how risks of anthropogenic trace organic compounds and pathogens in the drinking and surface water are produced in and in-between these fields, which discourses are most powerful and dominant and why.