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But most of their commentaries are irrelevant to serious scholarly discourse.
The first paper draws our attention to the concept of manifest destiny and current war discourse in the American context.
Dose's continuous incoherent diatribe evokes in turn the babble of a madman, the discourse of a preacher or the conversation of a child.
The discourse of all major speakers is saturated with religious ideas, sometimes explicitly.
Crucially, these ideas were not developed in the mainstream of political discourse but on the margins and then popularised.
In further opposition to the posthuman discourse, Richard also comes to the awareness of the importance of the complex space of the body.
The logic of this discourse posits a de-materialised space and an atemporal time.
The loud, the abusive, the vulgar have demolished the restraints and the manners which heretofore governed public discourse.
And to take such a stance, outside of the accepted discourse of reason, means that he can't use deductive logic to defend it.
His ignorance is a pure ruse, comparable to the roughness of his seemingly foolish discourse.
They form part of a larger local discourse on problems, difficulties, dangers, and risks related to life in general.
This discourse of function is transparent in design, but only occasionally with art.
Imperialism is a term often used as a rhetorical flourish and definitions vary especially in academic discourse and social discussion tracts.
In the late twentieth century rhetoric has been revived as the study of the structuring powers of discourse.
The science-and-theology discourse on eschatology did not work toward divine revelation.
The ceremonial undressing and redressing, which Ian uses in an attempt to entice Cate, seems to replace and animalise their colloquial discourse.
There is a limited analogy between the relation of theology to religious discourse and the relation of logic to language.
Smith is not the first to remark on the sometimes inconsistent and anachronistic nature of legal discourse and practice.
His is the voice behind the indirect discourse that perceives them as laughing hyenas.
Privatization can only mean less control is vested in public discourse and more is relegated to the demands of profit.
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With its emphasis on personification and topical allusion, allegory has a long association with political discourse.
Is a new discourse needed specifically to discuss resource allocation in the age of the human genome?
The cultural text remains alive and continues to speak in a discourse of oppression.
The danger, of course, is that this unfamiliar discourse can alienate the candidate from other members of the search committee.
It is the nullification of public discourse, for how can one refute accusations grounded in ethnicity?
As one of my referees pointed out, academic discourse does not allow for this kind of evidence alone.
New Urban communities provide designed public realms whose purpose is to re-energize public discourse.
Harris though seems to be rooted in the political discourse of thirty years ago with his notion of reds under the bed controlling everything.
More importantly I have shown how a Wittgensteinian approach to discourse can provide an account of what takes place in conversation.
To achieve this aim in oral discourse, speakers use visual cues provided by paralanguage, kinesics and synchrony to complement verbal language.
Mr. Roberts and his ilk may not listen to reason or polite discourse, but I'll bet they pay plenty of attention to the sound of falling ratings.
Blogs, wikis and other forms of online discourse are individual interactions, not corporate communications.
A discourse for which there were few takers earlier began to sound plausible.
In the discourse of the so-called third and fourth age, the third ager is often defined to be an active consumer of technology.
Women are subject to this discourse both in the name of religion as well as in the name of age-old customs and traditions.
Much of what Orme tells us is familiar, though he brings the fruits of very wide reading to enrich the discourse.
As an affirmer, the teacher appeared to support and encourage student contributions to the classroom discourse.
Hopefully, my rantings will at least vaguely interest those of you who crave rational discourse.
Those attacks have rankled his opponents, and raised, or lowered, the bar on campaign discourse, several Democrats said.
The range of discourse and debate in news media, though woefully constricted, is still meaningful.
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Like gender, race and racial discourse played a key role in the health discourse.
It is argued that the hypotactic constructions present in the NS's discourse provide explicit signals of logical and prominence relations.
Allow me to give you a short anecdote, to vary the wearisomeness of my discourse.
In light of the examples of occult texts offered above, occult discourse is the result of a rhetorical antinomy between a belief and an action.
In short, this study reminds us that power is not so much a matter of discourse as a question of turf.
In recent decades, however, the global discourse on forestry has moved towards a more accommodationist perspective.
Every day they confront a Janus-faced social discourse on female gender, which wedges them between two conflicting ideals of femininity.
If one is beyond the limits of acceptable political discourse, then surely the other is, too.
On this base, rap discourse explores various resources provided by the linguistic repertoire of the speech community.
But it is still very uncomfortable when the discourse moves beyond rather bare abstraction.
Poetry allows us to examine science in a way that purely scientific discourse cannot by analogizing abstract concepts into concrete forms.
The commentaries are not at all what they seem to the student puzzling over the ablative absolutes and indirect discourse.
We also welcome papers that analyze any aspect of literary discourse in relation to black vernacularism.
I told him I'd enjoyed his spirited discourse on the state of bullfighting at the arena.
Correct discourse in the US now demands that the gender of non-specific personal pronouns should alternate.
Without that working language, and other such scholarly vernaculars, today's globalization discourse would be hard to imagine.
Much of our discourse is inaccessible because of elitist language and our focus on print-based media.
Recourse to the discourse of human rights allows one to distinguish inexpiable crimes from those that lie within the realm of law and redemption.
She was already using female sexuality to question the conventions of novelistic discourse where sexuality was traditionally inexplicit.
As has been suggested, this discourse seems to have arisen out of a sense of weakness or inferiority on the part of the English.
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The reasoning associated with discourse is the probably the least well understood area of computational linguistics.
This discourse was partly inspired by the Qur'anic injunctions concerning peace.
Bakhtin does not attribute to the real author anything like sovereignty over the discourse he or she produces.
Northern-dominated government may have blunted the appeal of the development discourse among the majority of south-eastern voters.
Might a certain construal of authorial discourse interpretation be hospitable to reading by non-scholars?
As a representational act, landscape architecture has a responsibility to further the discourse on contemporary notions of nature and urbanity.
In the discourse of policy makers, European cinema is a part of the discursive construction of a European identity.
In the specialised discourse of contemporary scholarship, the connection between learning and living is often lost.
This discourse of the colonised is contemporary with that of the European orientalist, but from the opposite point of view.
But surely my discourse is not of such repulse that I am deserving of their contempt.
In doing so, he reveals the intimate connection between liberal narratives of race and the discourse of American exceptionalism.
The author also draws on research on language attitudes, contrastive analysis of Navajo and English, and discourse strategies.
We tend to just be all introverted and quiet around each other and then pine for the missed intellectual discourse we could have had.
What should have been a useful and informed discourse ends up as a parade of pretentious inutility.
With no room for metaphor and no place for pagan poetics, Protestant discourse was undermining both a symbolic and a social status quo.
Indeed, it has been argued that the discourse of race in the United States is founded on the dichotomy, and polarity, of black and white.
A large part of the difficulty is that the discourse of the populist Right is also often characterised by irrationalism and hyperbolic abuse.
In a similar way, the strength of political discourse has become increasingly flavorless and insipid as well.
The movement provides a very real case study of the corruption of public discourse in favour of a religious power play.
So, in the interest of returning some level of sanity to public discourse, I am stepping into the breach.
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I only make the kind of work I make because of the discourse of postmodernism and the time that I'm working in.
The fundamental issue at stake is truth in public discourse and public policy formulation.
The comprehensive database and cross-referenced web site provides a platform for further discourse and analytical study.
We focus on linguistic signals of discourse coherence, such as connectives and referential expressions.
One gets the clear impression that popular discourse is struggling to affirm itself, to be louder and more effective in its oppositive force.
The discourse is shifting from hackers as criminals to hackers as cyberterrorists.
Although some readers would have liked to see additional chapters on discourse and pragmatics, I have kept the same choice of topics.
There is never any occasion for colonial arrogance or Eurocentrism or hegemonizing the discourse of the Other, for being judgmental or elitist.
The rights discourse has been shifted to one of dangerousness and risk management, to exclude rather than to punish appropriately.
Just a short discourse and then this topic is closed on my blog henceforth.
In privileging a discourse about the self and the other exclusively, the expat gaze overlooks identities ostracized or exiled by the national.
Defense officials and pundits alike have elevated this concept to preeminence in the discourse on future military structure.
Grant prefaced his speech with a discourse on the need of godly friendship.
The treatment of presupposition is thus generalized and integrated into the discourse update procedure.
This discourse of spiritual marriage to Christ might also be used by a widow desiring to avoid remarriage by becoming a vowess.
Her work is a model for scholars attempting to understand the political discourse and social imaginaries of subaltern communities of all kinds.
Her research has focused on language, culture and identity, sociolinguistics, discourse and interaction.
The prophetic discourse characterized the people as the agent of social change.
They also sought to tap into public discourse about hackers as copyright pirates, criminals, and spreaders of computer viruses.
But it is the grievance of a people who turn their own misdeeds into their own victimology, thus making rational discourse all but impossible.
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The psychological discourse is organised around the signs and symptoms of mental illness.
It is the attempt to exclude such views from acceptable public discourse that is anti-democratic.
He describes discourse as a technique used by the power elite to exert control over other constituent groups.
He's doing what he thinks is right and doesn't begin from any of the premises that the official Washington punditocracy discourse begins from.
He may be right, but his sour remarks are outside the range of permissible discourse on this subject, which is either pious or punishing.
However, in the discourse of food and social level purveyed by this image, a more specific message is communicated by that eroticism.
The lexical items that become grammaticalized must first serve commonly needed discourse functions.
It also gives an overview of current practitioners of the discourse and their procedures.
Let our political discourse focus on this, and perhaps, more pyrrhic victories can be avoided.
Fiction of cultural resistance includes an inner discourse of resistance to patriarchal traditions in the Chicano culture.
If the book gets bogged down occasionally in its liberal social, political, economic, etc discourse, it can be forgiven.
Embarked upon to encourage discourse between past and present, the idea throws up some interesting pairings.
Like the mythical emperor's new clothes, the obscurity of highbrow discourse was merely a mystique that charlatans used to confound the gullible.
However, we are not optimistic given the trends in current political discourse surrounding debate of issues such as the foreshore.
Therefore is this my discourse set out in fair verse, good, honey-sweet, pure, delightful to the listening ear.
The preservation discourse speaks to the practice of individual responsibility for maintaining health.
How, then, can we force a change in the media systems that dominate the discourse and misinform the debate?
Someone has finally written a book that lifts the discourse of our current political debate to a higher level.
Thus, we can identify strains of our current discourse in debates held nearly 40 years ago.
In speaking the academic discourse of philosophy, the debaters have lost their discursive, if not their literal, accents.
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My son will deliver a discourse on a Torah topic, and each of his grandfathers will say a few words.
With this shift, connections between drug use and vice and crime had become much stronger in public discourse.
Here discourse is always already reduced to silence, the dumbness of a chirp, the murmur of a coo.
A dissertation is a detailed discourse or treatise on a particular topic that provides a new perspective to a phenomenon.
Second, resolving this underspecification requires reasoning about how the presupposition is rhetorically connected to the discourse context.
He read the daily paper and after digesting would discourse on current events.
They speak directly to the emotions, and they discourse about the things in life that really matter.
Another feature of ceremonial discourse is that it will praise the virtuous and the good because it is designed for its receiver's pleasure.
It lacks the profanity and the colorful colloquialisms and even most of the informal discourse markers.
The concept of a discourse community borrows from that of a speech community.
We have worked humbly and tirelessly to bring civility in political discourse to the next level.
The forms of satirical discourse and epigram are introduced to convey his opinions more directly.
It also occurs in the everyday and informal discourse through which we construct our daily lives.
While his discourse is extreme and accusatory, his demeanor is equable and deliberate.
For some time now, I've been concerned with the execrable quality of political discourse in this country.
This work exemplifies the analytical power of critical discourse analysis by illustrating how language is utilized as a tool for political ends.
To you our discourse is addressed, and for you our exhortation is intended.
The exoticization of the Orient was part of the discourse of orientalism governing European perspectives toward the East.
The fifth chapter is an extended discourse on God's relationship to both time and eternity and the last expounds the doctrine of the Trinity.
Chinese poetic discourse favors syntagmatic relations between its constituent elements.
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The discourse analysis undertaken to answer these questions was informed by discursive social psychology.
The idealized space of the pastoral is used to provide a locus amoenus for someone who eventually dominates all oral discourse within it.
By the silent movie era, public discourse about children focused on their safety and proper socialization.
They wrote with an intensity and a biting edge which was unusual in intellectual discourse hitherto.
Committing such a hypercorrection in an anti-elitist discourse subverts the argument.
This was particularly the case because those benefits came wrapped in a discourse of clientelism, rather than a discourse of entitlement.
And finally, it's a bad idea because it exemplifies the urge to replace political discourse with Pavlovian conditioning.
I'll argue, as well, that where there is ironic discourse, snark cannot be far behind.
They were, as a rule, too immature and unsophisticated to comprehend the full meaning of much of his discourse.
The analysis of free-indirect discourse has reached a high degree of refinement among narratologists and narrative theorists.
The Nama language is highlighted as relevant and useful in a contemporary world, and brought into the mainstream of cultural discourse.
Also challenged is the view that conversion entails changes in the beliefs, values, identities, and the universe of discourse of individuals.
They are a model of rational discourse, replete with references to the Federalist Papers and other similarly unimpeachable authorities.
I really wasn't that stoked about getting into a touchy political discourse with a bunch of drunks I didn't know.
Many philosophers will boldly tell us that we have strayed well beyond the limits of meaningful discourse.
In a sense, Scuglia holds that we have to choose between subcultural textual theory and the prematerialist paradigm of discourse.
In his public discourse nothing that Hickey says is random or unconsidered.
The native uncanniness of the cinematic apparatus is a periodic subject of theoretical discourse.
The piece is layered with narrative, some implied, others drawing from Tsonga mythology central to his discourse.
Gone are the days when a family celebrated these occasions with dinner, happy discourse and pleasure trips.
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The other essays in this section also approach the problem of Africa as mistakenly framed by Western discourse.
That very lack of engagement enables a popularising of biologistic discourse that deserves more informed criticism.
Or is it just organised touchiness, a non-issue mirrored and magnified as a great moral discourse signifying nothing?
Thus, pronouns in discourse anaphora are not variables bound by their quantifier antecedents.
Left-dislocations and topicalizations lie at the interface between syntax and discourse, but little is known about how they are processed.
First, the empty topic is in general a discourse rather than a sentence phenomenon.
Upon his favourite topic of discourse, it is said that he was quite unable to bear contradiction.
These symbols are the visual metonyms of Asian essentialism that have stagnated Asian Canadian discourse for some time.
In a lot of western magic discourse the ego is confused with the core of the being.
Conventional tonality, classical rhythmic structures and developmental discourse were all replaced in favor of much different techniques.
Conversely, interactional difficulties may lead to an unexpected shift in frame and discourse type.
At the heart of the discourse lay the attempt to define the western sensibility of this emotion as against the oriental.
They speak English in formal discourse or political discussions and shift to Patois in informal conversation and gossip.
From logic we have model-theoretic semantics, and from that possible-worlds analyses of modal and epistemic discourse.
They are allowing their discourse to be colonized by a moralism more appropriate to the pulpit than to the soap-box.
Do you ever worry about the place of art, of serious, meaningful human discourse?
A common thread throughout this discourse is the sense that members of the subjugated regime are outside the mainstream.
Such a synthesis is a transposition, and as such has a materiality that prevents it from being simply discourse.
Try as we might to pretend otherwise, the mask of polite discourse had been shattered.
But, as it is with fads and band-aid solutions, the application of the new discourse became ugly.
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Or at least it's the shtick that sets the tone for the evening's witty and intelligible discourse.
I've been trained by a state-financed educational institution in the discourse of philosophy that still bears the scars of scholasticism.
Her own response illustrates the power of a dominant discourse to effectively disable her reading of a review recommending important work in basic writing scholarship.
A bitterly partisan public discourse also developed in 18th-century England.
The discourse coheres an apparently unrelated array of policy nostrums.
And we are defined by a democratic discourse that allows each generation to reimagine and renew our union once more.
Enwezor's search for this inclusive discourse confronted the ethics and limits of occidental power, and its impact on contemporary discourses of globalization.
Racialized discourse is a set of social practices that favours the ingroup and denigrates the out-group, categorizing, evaluating and differentiating between groups.
The need for consideration of the issue of truth in public and parliamentary discourse within democracies has been long overdue for re-examination.
This inadequacy is partly inherent in the fact that our terms and categories belong to discourse taken from this world of space, time, and successiveness.
They cheapen the level of discourse and scientific exchange.
It does, indeed contribute to render spoken discourse more effective, but so does elegant chirography or clear typography improve the effectiveness of written thought.
Here the theological subdivision he introduces is Christology, construed broadly enough to include discourse that bears in almost any way on Jesus.
A qualitative analysis of the two texts revealed a number of differences in discourse structure, including different patterns of hypotaxis and parataxis.
It also entails the replacement, at least partially, of cold, ruthless, impartial legal discourse with a firm but paternally supportive discourse.
Many of the weblogs that have come to my attention display a disdain for civil discourse and, to the extent they say anything at all, say it rather coarsely.
But it has cheapened and coarsened the discourse in this country.
The usual sorts of discourse relationships exist among the phrases, but very little of this structure is encoded by phrasal embedding within sentences.
Once again matter has disappeared, this time giving way to the immateriality of communication, where everything is discourse and discourse is everything.
There is insistence on scientific models of the body derived from biomedical discourse and the concomitant occlusion of phenomenological concepts of embodiment.
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And if the end result isn't exactly my idea of a civilized political discourse it clearly is a powerful and successful example of fighting fire with fire.
Ironically, it is the public health discourse that has given the debate a new twist, confluent with the new discourse of economic efficiency and quality management.
The skeptics call attention to certain self-imposed limitations internal to rights discourse stemming from its embrace of the public private distinction.
The discourse of democracy has been embedded in the nationalist struggle for liberation and self-determination and has therefore implied a populistic kind of pluralism.
Thomas' article, counterpointed by a more persuasive discourse by security consultant Martin, seems to be soapbox oratory on behalf of the company.
Of course, no one would actually argue with such crudity, but there is a kind of discourse that can come perilously close to adopting that caricature attitude.
Such a model of theological discourse is fundamentally pluralistic.
While some poets and commercial enterprises gamely attempted to sustain pastoralism, many predicted that the discourse of nostalgia would be met with cynicism.
While the history of gangsta rap music is fairly short, there is a good deal of discourse circulating in popular culture about the treatment of women by men within this genre.
It is true that purely mathematical discourse has no use for tensed predications, but reference to numbers can occur in other kinds of discourse than the purely mathematical.
The fact that the discourse over the euro vote was especially harsh, with increased negative campaigning, can be attributed to the professionalization of politics.
The endless briefings, whether here or abroad, are mostly by military officers and intelligence analysts whose discourse tends to dehumanise the war.
This study of the role of deixis and information packaging in discourse is based on an analysis of several corpora of Russian spoken and written texts.
I hope I can help change the political discourse in this country.
There was scarcely a subject on which he could not discourse with humor and invention, from the depressive mood of the country to its other civic troubles.
Does it close off the contradictions in terms of a patriarchal discourse on motherhood, asking the spectator to accept desexualization, sacrifice, and powerlessness?
But some of us remember political discourse with dewy-eyed nostalgia.
External actors should support and encourage indigenous actors who are engaging in internal discourse to legitimize and effectuate a particular human right.
By justifying the management discourse on productivity, employees keep in place the surveillance system that actually works to their disadvantage.
It is something that is quite literally built, brick by brick, and at each level of society you understand what the parameters are of political discourse and political debate.
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However, it's an interesting discourse on an unusual writing career.
Further, the economy of words and gestures in ritual speech serves to form and catechize in ways that formal discourse about this practice cannot.
He would never miss an opportunity, in the prologues or epilogues to these programs, to discourse upon the importance of being frightened, of having your spine tingled.
Generally, less structure seems to be equated with more subjective, except in the domain of discourse markers, where the more one has the more subjective things get!
Independence movements are associated with working within the system, pushing up against its boundaries, with a discursive discourse to change consciousness.
These methods include empirical phenomenology, ethnomethodology, discourse analysis, conversation analysis, narrative analysis, and action research, among others.
Similarly, one can prove the consistency of predicate logic, by specializing to interpretations where the universe of discourse has a single element.
The discourse on xenoglossia reveals the extent to which Spiritualism's intellectual meritocracy, is rested on a corresponding cult of ignorance and radical idiocracy.
From racial perception and discourse to the solitudinarian discoveries, grumblings and reflections, these writers serve as the British alter ego at the margins of the known world.
To record the woes of authors and to discourse de libris fatalibus seems deliberately to court the displeasure of that fickle mistress who presides over the destinies of writers and their works.
She delivered an entertaining discourse on the current state of the film industry.
Great American leaders have long contributed profound thoughts of tremendous consequence to the public discourse.
And this of course raises the specter of Republican lies that make their own contribution to the degradation of public discourse.
These days, authoritative feminist discourse is no longer just a spectator sport.
With the cancelation of the event, discourse between the two diverse entities will not have a venue.
He would now be quite interested in the various usages of the term, its numerous acceptations and definitions, and the way it has infiltrated the discourse in and on the arts.
The concussion crisis now has a permanent seat at the table of national discourse.
If not for movies like dazed and Confused, hemp would have all but disappeared from American discourse.
But if you choose to conduct your discourse in 140-word snaps, or soundbites, then you reap the crop of dumb that you sow.
Such research suggests that the proscription concerning the recourse to ethnographic particulars is honoured more by some discourse analysts than others.
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Language is useful for delineating acceptable discourse, for isolating some and including others.
The dire fatalism that dominated the discourse then is gone, replaced largely with a practiced apathy.
Several stubborn ideas have steered much of the discourse around health care.
Cohn rejoins by pointing out that such an imagining cannot be discursive, because, for Foucault, discourse must be enforced across a single ontological plane.
That is, the vernacular comes to us as reported speech, and it is here that we encounter the confusing dimensions of discourse within a Hurston text.
The position of the unit holder is different from that of a residuary beneficiary in an unadministered estate, which rests upon concepts of a different area of discourse.
Beyond the standard lefty refrains, most of the discourse was about how they felt marginalized within the power structure of the political science discipline.
The beauty revivalism of the 1990s often expressed dissatisfaction with the priority postmodern discourse placed on the social and symbolic regulation of the subject.
Based on this, scholars have accepted that around 2,000 word families provide the lexical resources to engage in everyday spoken English discourse.
Foundational to Garver's argument is Aristotle's insight that the rhetorically relevant ethos is the one that is constructed in the rhetor's discourse.
Numerous rhetoricians have also considered how rhetorical space is created and how it includes and excludes certain discourse, and certain speakers.
Similarly, no scribe in antiquity could have worked with such a typology, for every variation in the objects could never be registered in bureaucratic discourse.
Rarely does a play become a lightning rod for public discourse.
He thought outside the box and through humor, shaped public discourse and opinion.
A spurious, wrong-headed idea that spreads virally and poisons public discourse.
And nothing squelches education, or the desire for education, like stifling discourse.
And his pitiless beliefs would be no stranger to the political discourse of today.
Premodern interpreters, from both Qumran and the Syriac exegetical tradition, understood the scriptural text to be open to a revelatory discourse.
For example, Mandarin's usage of mass nouns predisposes its discourse to take a more holistic approach to the world than say, English, which demarcates objects more readily.
Radical leftist activists and Islamist organizations have in recent years gained control of the public discourse in Jaffa.
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It will be particularly salutary because it allows us to discourse again about self-discipline, self-mastery, and maybe even the exercise of the will.
Our ideas today of discourse and archives must be radically modified and can no longer be defined as Foucault painstakingly tried to describe them a mere two decades ago.
Using sentiment analysis, we assess the strategies that the groups used in their discourse one year before the election and immediately after the election.
Not shy about going for the laugh line, she is also deadly serious when the discourse calls for it.
It would surely be progress if significant discourse on tolerance were incorporated into educational curricula, religious sermons, and public speech.
Not only did a discourse of rights have to be created for Mexican immigrant farmworkers, but it also had to recognize the ethnic variation within the farmworker population.
I hoped that having the area framed within an international discourse of significance would give Shoshone advocates for saving the quarry a stronger point from which to argue.
Extreme partisanship and uncivil political discourse is not the best way to accomplish anything in Washington.
You do not have to discourse with fairies or elves, gnomes or trolls.
Read today, the speech still vibrates with a passionate intensity rarely found in any contemporary political discourse.
Contrary to the theories of the posthumanist discourse, Richard argues that knowledge is not reducible to information that can travel anywhere unbound to a material context.
It's a language that offers a safety valve against a discourse that oscillates uneasily between a strangulated avoidance of reality and an ugly violence.
The vitriolic discourse can also be linked to bias-based violence against other communities.
The dominant UK political discourse is both xenophobic and ungenerous.
It's an African continent too deeply locked into a historical discourse with the west to see past the rhetoric and face the unpalatable hard bitter truth.
What emerges by the end is an acute awareness on the part of the reader of the presence of narrativity and its unavoidable role in all forms of historical discourse.
Structuralist narrative theory and narratology conclude that the subject is therefore but an effect of discourse or the outer limit of the narrative boxes and therefore moot.
Technology has only recently been freed from the unreal fantasies that surrounded its discourse and the model put forth here attempts develop this emerging imagery.
Psychoanalysis, then, becomes a discourse of exclusion, as it naturalizes the morality or immorality associated with elements of one's psychological make-up.
The dominant media simply can't monopolize discourse as they could only a few years ago, and when they take positions that are unsupportable, they get hammered.
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But when a neoconservative Republican and a liberal Democrat can agree on an issue it gives me hope for the future of political discourse in the blogosphere.
At the time, the discourse of the individual, atomized, bourgeois self was valorized by corporate media as the highest unit of organization and thinking.
Throughout the war years, sacrifice was valorized in rhetoric, if not always in practice, and became, once again, a key element of political discourse.
Frustrating as our national discourse can be, the checks-and-balances of a pluralistic society certainly seems preferable to that.
In this review, he leaves the community of civil, respectful discourse and becomes a mere mouthpiece of the ideological left, a careless spewer of hateful rhetoric.
It betrays the vintage of Bartok's quartets no 3 and 4 showing much the same use of one permutating motive governing the total thematic discourse.
One of the big things that we want is to increase discourse in the classroom with a verbalization of the thought processes.
But this has left our public discourse empty and unsatisfying.
The work on the role of newspapers and the discourse of Boosterism in the pioneer period of the West is very well done.
A year characterized by the inCivil War, where the shrillness of political discourse has risen to the highest levels in memory.
Both accounts basically agree, though Bede gives a much lengthier discourse on the debate.
In this winner-takes-all match, the Definers even shape the framework and the agenda of the national discourse.
Quite different from today is the way philosophy moved from rational discourse to theurgy and mysticism.
From pre-philosophical Greek thought, duality entered the speculative discourse of the presocratics.
Furthermore, the paralogical discourse is not necessarily one of consensus, but rather the open ended constestation of categories.
People of good will must respond when public discourse is infected with demonization of particular groups.
Such demonological theological discourse is common all over Africa among Pentecostals.
Language change happens at all levels from the phonological level to the levels of vocabulary, morphology, syntax, and discourse.
In terms of general discourse one can proceed hyponymously, confirming and making more specific the existing expression.
Historian Mark Knights, argues that by its very ferocity, the debate may have led to more temperate and less hypercharged political discourse.

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