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Discourse analysis
About: Discourse analysis is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 16055 publications have been published within this topic receiving 515384 citations. The topic is also known as: DA & discourse studies.
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TL;DR: In this article, a collection on policy discourses and argumentation in international development is presented, with a focus on metaphors, framing, and policy narratives, emphasizing that discourse analysis requires systematic attention to texts as well as contexts.
Abstract: Introducing a collection on policy discourses and argumentation in international development, this review clarifies meanings of ‘discourse analysis’, and emphasises that discourse analysis requires systematic attention to texts as well as contexts. It outlines work in policy discourse analysis, notably on metaphors, framing and policy narratives.
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07 Mar 2007TL;DR: This article found that students did not orient to the conference as a forum for critical discourse, and worse, they had competing orientations; they perceived critiques as personal attacks; and they realized early on that critical discourse was a bothersome means to obtain their participation marks.
Abstract: This qualitative case study illustrates barriers to informal argumentation and reasoned debate, i.e., critical discourse, in online forums. The case is the computer conference of a 15-week, graduate-level humanities course offered entirely at a distance. Twelve students, all with families and careers, were enrolled in the course. We read all messages as they were posted and interviewed five of the students several times during the course. The students provided three insights into our interpretation that the forums contained little critical discourse: (1) The students did not orient to the conference as a forum for critical discourse, and worse, they had competing orientations; (2) they perceived critiques as personal attacks; and (3) they realized early on that critical discourse was a bothersome means to obtain their participation marks. Certain practices may ease some of these difficulties, including (1) well-structured learning activities with clearly defined roles for teachers and students, and (2) a method of assessing students’ participation that reflects the time and effort required to engage in critical discourse.
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TL;DR: This paper examined the role of interpreters in cross-linguistic discourse, arguing that earlier analyses of their functions as voiceboxes or mere instruments of linguistic conversion do not adequately describe the processes by which linguistic common ground is constructed between speakers of different languages.
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