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Discourse Communities and the Discourse of Experience

Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 2003
Discourse communities are groups of people who share common ideologies, and common ways of speaking about things. They can be sharply or loosely defined. We are each members of multiple discourse communities. Discourse can colonize the members of discourse communities, taking over domains of thought by means of ideology.
Miles, Little, Christopher F C, Jordens, Emma-Jane, Sayers   +2 more
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A Discourse on Academic Discourse

Linguistics and Education, 2002
Abstract This is a study of the organization of talk and of some outstanding features of the teacher’s discourse in a recurring curricular event (literature study) in one atypical fifth/sixth-grade classroom. The investigation was propelled by our assumption that the teacher was inducting students into a Discourse, a mesh of value-laden ways of ...
Carole Edelsky, Karen Smith, Paula Wolfe
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Discourses on Discourse

2017
This chapter discusses discourse in relation to key principles and practices and sets out the model of describing, interpreting and explaining discourse. It introduces the concepts of ‘communities of practice’, ‘site of engagement’ and ‘critical moments’ as central to discourse, and explains the relationship between social practice and discursive ...
Christopher N. Candlin, Jonathan Crichton, Stephen H. Moore   +2 more
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Discourse, grammar, discourse

Discourse Studies, 2009
Discourse and grammar often complement each other, each imposing a different set of constraints on speakers' utterances. Discourse constraints are global, pertaining to text coherence, and/or to interpersonal relations. Grammatical constraints are local, pertaining to possible versus impossible structures (within specific languages).
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Discourses, Discourse Identification and Discourse Naming

2004
In this chapter I expand on what was said about discourses in Chapter 1, particularly in terms of relevant linguistic features, then move on to two detailed examples of interpretive ‘discourse identification’. This is with a view to enabling those investigating discourse from a critical or poststructuralist perspective to interpretively identify, name ...
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Discourse and Objects of Discourse

1977
Dominant in the critical comment PCMP has received have been the charges of ‘formalism’ and ‘idealism’.1 These charges have their source in PCMP’s explicit rejection of epistemological forms of conceptualisation of the relation between discourse and its objects. What is at issue in these charges is not primarily the ‘substantive’ concepts elaborated in
Barry Hindess, Paul Hirst
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A Discourse on Discourse Studies

Society, 2016
Discourse analysis can be said to have evolved out of the desire linguists had to move beyond the sentence and be able to analyze all kinds of texts, from conversations to advertisements and texts with written or spoken language, images, video and music.
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Learning Discourses and the Discourses of Learning

2020
Learning Discourses and the Discourses of Learning is an edited collection of papers exploring issues of teaching and learning in academic settings. The key theme of the volume is 'discourses' - especially as these relate to institutional policies, disciplinary practices and students' processes of learning in the academy.
Marriott, Helen, Moore, Tim, Spence-Brown, Robyn   +2 more
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Critical Discourse Analysis: Discourse Acquisition and Discourse Practices

TESOL Quarterly, 1999
* An important concern of critical approaches to language and language learning is to go beyond simply describing conventions of language form and use to show the ways in which such conventions are tied to social relations of power. "Critical approaches differ from non-critical approaches in not just describing discursive practices, but in showing how ...
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The Discourse of Education—the Discourse of the Slave

Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2006
The current cult of the personality of the teacher and personal development as an official goal in education policy documents are problematic as they make it difficult to distinguish a teacher from a seducer, thus blurring the distinction between education and therapy.
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