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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   +2 more
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Legitimation in discourse and communication

Discourse & Communication, 2007
The article sets out a framework for analysing the way discourses construct legitimation for social practices in public communication as well as in everyday interaction. Four key categories of legitimation are distinguished: 1) ‘authorization’, legitimation by reference to the authority of tradition, custom and law, and of persons in whom institutional
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Discourse structures in iconic communication

Artificial Intelligence Review, 1995
The success of the WIMP interface, the convergence towards multimedia platforms and the growing use of the Internet combine to place new demands on the systems we use to communicate with one another. Proposals for iconic languages are not new but the computer offers the ability to incorporate interactivity and animation into iconic writing and reading ...
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Communities of Discourse

2001
AbstractExamines how our sense of reality, in general, and religious reality, in particular, are established within community. Certain religious experiences, it is argued, are possible only within certain communally established frames of reality. Relativism and skepticism about ultimate truth are nonetheless to be resisted.
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Mathematics Discourse Communities

Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2017
This case explores how a monolingual teacher, embedded in a large urban school context, saw and understood her role in supporting emergent bilingual learners’ development of mathematics discourse. Particular attention is paid to the classroom arrangements and curricular and instructional choices this teacher made to facilitate this development.
Craig Willey   +2 more
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A communicative conception of discourse

Discourse Studies, 2002
This article sets out to define an approach to discourse that takes into account the characteristics of the phenomenon of social communication. First, the article examines different conceptions of discourse analysis such as `cognitive', `representational' and `communicational'.
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Communication, discourses and interculturality

Language and Intercultural Communication, 2010
Communication is generally realised through social action in the form of interpersonal discourse.
Young TJ, Sercombe PG
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