Category: Discourse Analysis

Descartes’s opening statement in the first part of his discourse claims that common sense; or rather good sense of reasoning is equal amongst all. The idea that every individual has an equal amount of good sense (Descartes, 4) means that they should have the ability to decide whether something is true or false and the…

‘Critical discourse analysis and the ethnography of language policy’ by David Cassels Johnson The author analyzes the agreeable relationship between ethnography and critical discourse analysis (CDA) for the study of language policy. He examined how critical discourse analysis (CDA) combined with ethnography procures a foundation for discerning how particular policies are recontextualized in particular contexts,…

This is exactly what Mamet is picturing in his play: the lost opportunities for proper and functional human connections. As Greenbaum puts it, Glengarry Glen Ross faithfully captures the sad ethos of American capitalism. The capitalist discourse and its inherent demand for cut-throat competition, duplicity, and stratification enhance the predatory nature of masculinity (42). Mamets…

Introduction Media has become an inseparable part of everyones life and that makes genre analysis in media discourse even more worthwhile. The topic of this essay is genre analysis in media discourse and is based on Machin and Van Leeuwens article (2014). I will focus on the multimodal social media discourse and more specifically on…

Introduction Discourse is a necessary component of daily communication and interaction between individuals, functioning on multiple and often highly complex syntactical and semantic levels. Discourse, in the broadest sense, refers to the use of spoken or written language in a social context, but pertains moreover to the deep-coded levels of communication, at the inferential and…

Since 1970s Discourse Analysis (DA) has developed into substantial sub-areas, notably Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) which sees discourse as a form of social practice (Fairclough 1995, 1989) and argues that all linguistic usage encodes ideological positions, and studies how language mediates and represents the world from different points of view. It is the connection between…

As humans we convey information, thoughts, feelings, ideas through different modes of communication which include speaking, writing, drawing, sign languages, facial expressions etc. Communication is the exchange of meaningful information between two or more people or group of people in a community or society. Velentzas and Georgia (2014) explains that to communicate means to make…

Introduction Rural homelessness in the UK has long been an overlooked issue, unlike urban homelessness, it tends to be hidden. Since 2010 the number of people sleeping rough in largely rural areas has increased by 32% according to the Institute for Public Policy, warning its difficult to relieve or prevent rural homelessness compared to cities…

Linguistic manipulation is an authoritative instrument in politics because political discourse is initially focused on convincing people to take specific political action or to make critical political decisions. To persuade the capable electorate in present time societies, politics primarily over powers the mass media, which leads to creating innovative forms of linguistics manipulation. For example…

Introduction The association between politics and language can be trace back to ancient Greece and since then the intellectual interest has been erected on the premise that political behavior is knotted with and dependent on language usage. Political discourse is all pervasive and cogent because of its sturdy power to access the general public at…