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Showing 1 to 20 of 1675 for “"Discursive"”.
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Discursive strategies in negotiating the voice hearing identity; a critical discursive approach
… face. The current study draws on a critical discursive approach to identify discursive strategies that participants use to negotiate the voice hearing identity. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight participants recruited from the Hearing Voices Network. Analysis took a …
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Understanding discursive hegemony in Turkish politics : discursive strategies as instruments of hegemonic projects
This research on the use of discursive strategies in Turkish politics is a result of an interest in the ways language is employed in politics. Although the political science literature about Turkey concentrates on the power struggles between political actors on the policy level, the use of language …
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Managerial Decisions: A Discursive Analysis
… rise to the discourse and practices of Kaizen; discursive motifs on quality, and the formation of new discourses. Comparative archaeology of the various concepts of quality, as apprehended within the study, has identified two major currents of discourse. Neither discourse is inherently …
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The discursive structures of totalitarian ideology
… this research the researcher views ideology as discursive practice that constitutes social realities through producing its subjects. A series of formal narrative models are established to tackle the fundamental discursive structures of ideological texts. Temporal narrative analysis is used to …
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The Discursive Construction Of Child Sexual Abuse
… being commonly portrayed as a singularity, the discursive arena of adult/child sex is a site of controversy and conflict, invested with meanings that differ over time and place. Child sexual abuse cannot thus be thought of as something that exists outside of the situated knowledge through which …
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THE DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF CITIZENSHIP IN SINGAPORE
… by examining how the notion of citizenship is discursively constructed in Singapore, and its relationship with how new citizens imagine and position themselves in Singapore society with respect to the material conditions that surround them. By using an interpretive approach that incorporates …
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A public silence : discursive practices surrounding homosexuality
… health care for MSM. This thesis explores the discursive construction of the relationships between MSM and PMHS, and the implications of this for practice. My analysis begins by explicating commonly circulating discourses of homosexuality, and of mental health, in New Zealand. These discourses …
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The Discursive Construction of Taiwanese National Identity
… this dissertation attempts to analyze the discursive mechanisms that have constructed this new collective imagination by many people in Taiwan that now regard themselves as members of an independent Taiwanese nation. The research questions of this dissertation are: how has the post-1949 …
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Counter-discursive strategies in first-world migrant writing
… writers whose texts self-reflexively and counter-discursively seek to define and express individual identity at the interface of two or more cultures. The writers discussed not only move spatially between places but also shift emotionally and intellectually between different languages and cultures …
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Stepmothering and Identity: A Synthetic Narrative-Discursive Analysis
… This research used a synthetic narrative-discursive methodological approach, underpinned by feminist theory, to explore the identity work undertaken by stepmothers. In order to maximise the diversity of participants, data were drawn from a web forum for stepmothers and interviews with …
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Discursive Psychology: Meta-theoretical applications for clinical Psychology
… Rom Harre's meta-theory for (social) psychology (Discursive Psychology) might be applied to the typical concerns of mainstream Clinical Psychology, namely, DSM IV diagnosis; clinical formulation; treatment intervention; and therapeutic evaluation. Discursive ' Psychology is posited as an …
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Parade Square : discursive surface of post-socialist Warsaw
Parade Square in Warsaw is a battleground where different political projects are confronted, without any possibility of a seamless reconciliation. Prior to World War II, the area used to be a dense residential neighborhood. In the post war years, it was reconfigured by the socialist urban design …
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Horace Kallen Confronts America: Jewish Identity in Discursive Formation
… Horace Meyer Kallen (1882-1974) explores the discursive fields from which American Jewish modernity developed. Through a close analysis of Kallen's writings and relationships, of his engagement with print culture, and of his understanding of science and scientific culture, I describe one …
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Somali Resistance against Ethiopian State Nationalism: A Discursive Inquiry
… nineteenth century. This thesis examines the discursive construction of Somali nationalist resistance against Ethiopian state nationalism employing an interpretive and critical methodology. Combining qualitative data with historical archival sources, this thesis challenges the canon in …
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Looking in: Mapping representations of teachers' discursive writing practices
… and educational curriculum policies have created discursive shifts in writing theory and practice. While these policies have historically privileged a particular view of writing over others, very little is known about how New Zealand teachers engage with discourses of writing. Research in the …
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Stories of Resistance to Religious Authority: A Discursive Analysis
… on their lives, and their acts of resistance. A discursive approach to narrative analysis was developed and applied to transcriptions of these interviews. This analysis identified a range of discursive technologies which had contributed to the subjugation of the participants and protected the …
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Discursive Designing Theory - Towards a Theory of Designing Design -
Discursive Designing Theory - Towards a Theory of Designing Design- Juergen Faust Motivated by the immature theoretical framework of design, this thesis employs transdisciplinary discourse to provide a contemporary and forward-looking model of design and design theory, as well as the linkages …
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Masculinities and the Paedophile: Discursive Strategies in Irish Newspapers.
… of the masculinities of these men. The discursive regimes and cultural scenarios drawn upon in representations of `the paedophile¿ reflect degrees of deviation from hegemonic masculinity in an always already `deviant¿ group of men. Inactive heterosexuality and homosexuality are not …
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What's in a word? the discursive construction of 'creativity'.
… (Ofsted 2010a). Attention is given to the discursive processes of authorising particular models of creativity in these documents, the ways in which tensions and contradictions are dealt with and the implications for ʻcreativityʼ in education. An explicitly reflective mode is adopted where …
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