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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Discourse Theory"”.
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The Application of Critical Discourse Theory: A Criterion-Referenced Analysis of Reports Relating to Language Revitalisation in Australia and New Zealand
… not address the hegemonic and counter-hegemonic discourse that is at the very core of language revitalisation efforts. It is therefore argued here that LPP needs to be explicitly underpinned by critical discourse theory (CDT) if it is to be of genuine use to those involved in language …
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Why public policy ideas catch on: empty signifiers and flourishing neighbourhoods
… through the application of the political discourse theory of Laclau and Mouffe. The approach posits ideas as demands operating in governing discourses and understands how general equivalent demands then become empty signifiers. This thesis develops current understanding on how general …
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Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory and the Historical Progression of Discourse: The Shifting of Social and Institutional Identity in Post-World War II America
… the employment of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, specifically Lacan's theory of discourse. Lacan used the term discourse to show that a society's primary social link is founded on language, reflected back through society in the form of discursive practices. According to Lacanian discourse …
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Identity, Oppression, and Group Rights
… conception of group rights based on Habermasian discourse theory, as an alternative to the dominant multicultural liberal approach to group rights, which treats group rights as instrumental to individual rights.</p>
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The composition of anonymity: Toward a theory, history, and pedagogy
… through language. The founding philosophical discourses of identity, authority, and community reveal an "anonymous function"---a transgressive discourse of impersonation, authenticity, and immunity---which this dissertation traces in phenomenology, discourse theory, poetics, rhetoric, and …
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An analysis of the impact of the United Kingdom print and broadcast media upon the legitimacy of the european parliament in Britain
… the EP is absent among the British public. Media discourse theory is then outlined and a particular application of media discourse theory is used to examine the British media. An empirical examination of the perception of the legitimacy of the European Parliament in the British Euro-sceptic and …
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Dementia within the Marital Sphere - Discourse, Power & Knowledge
… allowed for the emergence of certain dementia discourses over others. It explored how dementia has generated biomedical, neuro, psychological, pharmaceutical, technological, charitable and academic forces that in turn, produce and maintain the power of these forces, plus the dominant biomedical …
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Intranetbasierte Gruppendiskussionen. Entwicklung eines theoretisch-methodologisch fundierten Konzepts einer Methode zur prozessorientierten Evaluation von Studium und Lehre an deutschen Hochschulen
… proposes an approach based on structuration and discourse theory and the interpretive paradigm to derive principles for designing and evaluating a research method for processoriented university evaluation. An evaluation of the introduced method of intranetbased group discussions indicates a …
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Researching strategies for risk reduction in sexual behaviour
… health research: social cognition models and discourse theory.<br/><br/>The second is an exploration of the practical use of a discourse theoretical approach to research accounts from people in the forty-something' age bracket about their experience of developing new sexually intimate …
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Appropriation, translation and transformation of institutionalised development discourses: the case of faith-based organisations doing development work in the Philippines
… Using an analytical framework informed by discourse theory and institutionalism, this study provides a description on each of four dimensions of the development work of FBOs: the first dimension is practices/actions, which relates to the program activities of FBOs; the second is …
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Neoliberal Planning in Practice: Use Value or Exchange Value? A Post-Positivist Investigation of Auckland’s Housing Affordability Issues
… to the housing affordability issues. Political discourse theory, as a post-positivist research approach, is applied as the methodology of the research. The methodology offers a distinctive approach that effectively bridges the dichotomies between universalism and particularism. Based on this …
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A study of the views of practitioners, managers and the professional body, on the purpose of support and supervision for guidance practitioners working as personal advisers
… put into place. In exploring the formation of a discourse on support and supervision in the field of career guidance, the study evaluated the usefulness of discourse theory. Through the use of discourse theory the study also examined the need for support and supervision. Ten personal advisers, …
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Discourse in Eugene Nida's translation theory.
The fields of discourse and translation are by no means new areas of study. However, it is only in recent years that discourse analysis has been applied directly to translation. The primary objective of this thesis is to show that discourse is now a key concept in Eugene A. Nida's translation …
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Pandemic racism: describing and delegitimising discursive necropolitics on Africa in Danish mainstream media during COVID-19
… with necropolitics, feminist, queer and crip theory, as well as linguistics through discourse theory and media studies through analysis of news articles to examine how everyday discourse contributes to practices of violence that continue to make race real. Its framework The theoretical …
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Struggling to hold addiction treatment talk and relapse in mind
… counselling interventions. Mentalization theory and critical discourse theory are used as a discursive lens in an attempt to understand these interventions and consider their shortcomings. In order to approach the question of relapse and addiction treatment, twenty interviews were …
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Christian-Muslim dialogue in post-revolutionary Egypt: the influence of the humanist discourse
… in post-revolutionary Egypt using grounded theory methodology. The theoretical framework combines Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory from political science with the intergroup theory from social psychology. This framework helps reveal details of the interfaith dynamics. This research …
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The Dissolution of Yugoslavia and the Emergence of the ‘Nationalist’ Croatian Democratic Union: A Discourse Analytic Reading
… of the Croatian Democratic Union’s nationalist discourse in the context of Yugoslavia's dissolution, revealing its historical specificity. The analysis covers the form of social division instituted by the Yugoslavian regime, the politicizations of the Croatian nation during the Croatian Spring …
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Different stories : multicultural issues in the training of clinical psychologists
… data was guided by social constructionist and discourse theory. The interns felt that it had been difficult to talk about multicultural issues during the training. Their reasons for this are discussed in the light of a politically motivated preference for talk about similarities rather than …
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A structural framework for assembly modeling and recognition
… and applying parsing strategies known from discourse theory, they enable the flexible detection of arbitrary assembly structures in image data. Graph-based models are derived from syntactic structures and subsequent graph matching enables the reliable recognition of individual assemblies. …
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‘The People’s Glossary’: Using dialogic art to create a common language for User-led Museum practice
… to emancipate, educate or exclude. Meanwhile, discourses centred on expertise, representation and authorship have re-emerged as priorities in collections of contemporary art due to pressures for them to be reinstated as dialogical resources. This is especially true for those where participatory …
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