George F. Cabrera October 6‚ 2013 The Prince and The Discourses and it’s similarities. Reading the books of Machiavelli’s: The Prince and The Discourses I noticed there are many similarities to one another. Machiavelli explains the concept of an ideal ruler that he thinks would be able to govern with great power and adversity from his observation of previous rulers. The Prince is a book written about Tyrants while The Discourses is a book written by lovers of liberty (The Prince‚ Introduction-
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Critical Discourse Analysis on Political Texts Abstract Critical Discourse Analysis (hereafter abbreviated as CDA) concerns power relationships between language and society. Meanwhile‚ politics have influence in many facets around the society. Presenting samples of political texts collected‚ this paper aims at analyzing the power relationships in political texts with CDA. 1. Introduction CDA can be summarized as a study of language use through discourse as well as social problems‚ revealing
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by many scholars as discourse particles or discourse markers. Discourse markers are widely used in spoken discourse‚ usually in daily informal conversation. However‚ this research concentrates on the usage and function of these words in written discourse‚ as they appear in fiction. Discourse markers as a special phenomenon have been studied from various perspectives. As previous studies (see‚ for example‚ Aijmer 1986‚Shiffrin 1987‚ Fraser 1999‚ Klerk 2006) have shown‚ discourse markers not only enhance
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AND MEDIA STUDIES S E R I E S E D I T O R : S T U A R T A L L A N Media Discourses Analysing Media Texts Some of the most important questions regarding the relationship between media and culture are about communication. How are the meanings which make up a culture shared in society? How is power performed in the media? What identities and relationships take shape there? Media Discourses introduces readers to discourse analysis to show how media communication works. Written in a lively style and
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Communication 317m - #1398 Dr. G. E. Forsberg Lesson Two Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves To Death chronicles the rise of television culture in America‚ from colonial times to the modern day; though of course‚ there were no televisions around in colonial America. This is precisely Postman’s focus--the way that America was as a culture first in the age where print media reigned supreme‚ and how the
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Discussing Discourses Many people find the concept of a discourse community to be important enough to write about but many have failed to create a clear and universal definition. Three scholars: Porter‚ Swales‚ and Gee each attempt to create their own definition of the concept. Each of their articles has major differences in their interpretation of the notion of discourse communities while still having underlying similarities. The articles all build off the work of others while also introducing
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secondary Discourse” (p. 9). As social beings‚ people belong to a variety of Discourse groups‚ groups that have very specific identities and “ways of being in the world” (Gee‚ 19--‚ p. 6). Our primary Discourse group is that of our home. As our world expands‚ so do our Discourse groups. According to Gee‚ these secondary Discourse groups have particular way of thinking‚ speaking‚ acting‚ valuing‚ believing‚ and understanding that are unique to that group. Newcomers to these secondary Discourse groups
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festival in Bac Ninh Province. In the controversy in which domestic as well as foreign individuals and organizations are interested‚ the author is apparently against the continuity of the festival by quoting authorities’ defences. Analysis Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) examines a talk or a text to find out underlying meaning related to socio-cultural aspects (Van Dijk‚ 2003; Hyland‚ 2005). By analysing genre‚ cohesive and referential features of the text as well as
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Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Two English Learning Visual Advertisements It was not until the advent of “new media age”‚ which by definition involves prevailing digital-mediated communication modes and substantial usage of multiple semiotic resources combined in the realization of discourses‚ did the mainstream preference of monomodality unprecedentedly challenged (Kress & Van Leeuwen‚ 2001). Language‚ as one of the semiotic resources‚ is by no means the only carrier to realize discourses. Diversity
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“The Concept of Discourse Community‚” an excerpt from the book Genre Analysis‚ by John Swales attempts to indicate the actual definition of a discourse community. Swales main argument is that there is a difference between a speech community and a discourse community. Also‚ that there are six characteristics a group must meet in order to be a discourse community. Swales then provides examples and discusses issues concerning the idea of a discourse community. In the beginning of Swales argument‚
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