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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Discursive Strategies"”.
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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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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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Creating Green Chemistry: Discursive Strategies of a Scientific Movement
… to the present day. I focus my study on the discursive strategies employed by leaders of the movement to establish green chemistry and to develop and institute changes in the practice of the chemical sciences. The study looks specifically at three different strategies. The first is the …
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The delegitimisation discursive strategies of women's right to drive in Saudi Arabia
… of investigating the social, cognitive and discursive dimensions of social problems such as dominance and gender inequality. This study, hence, investigates gender inequality as exemplified in the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia in relation to society, cognition and discourse. The …
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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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Undocumented, Unapologetic, And Unafraid: Discursive Strategies Of The Immigrant Youth Dream Social Movement
… movement, with unique internal and external strategies used to advocate for social change. The first phase covers 2001 through 2007, where self-identification strategies were used to create a collective group identity that countered the negative dehumanizing typecast of "illegal aliens" by …
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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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A linguistic analysis of discursive strategies in the Harambee Prosperity Plan (HPP) policy document
… launched in 2016. The study aimed to explore the discursive ways in which the devices were employed to persuade readers. It employed the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) approach and the Systemic Functional Linguistic theory to analyse the linguistic devices. Various linguistic devices are …
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Discursive strategies for political survival : a critical discourse analysis of Thai no confidence debates
… style of the debates' discourse is the result of discursive strategies used in politicians' speeches. These strategies are textual evidence of sociocultural practice and discourse practice. They reflect the speakers' attempts to subvert three competing conjunctures in the Thai political domain: …
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Discursive strategies within Thatcherism: family and market representations in its rhetoric and Community Care Documents
My thesis examines the discursive similarities between the public political voice of Thatcherism and the "bureaucratic" policy voice of Community Care Documents. The similarities I am searching for between the rhetoric and the documents involve mythical representations of the family, the free …
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The discursive construction of identity and legitimation in the UN mission in Haiti (2004 - 2015)
… I investigate how the leaders of MINUSTAH discursively constructed legitimation and a Latin-American identity in the context of the mission. To analyse these processes, I develop a comprehensive analytical framework, drawing in critical discourse studies (CDS), theories of identity, …
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Power discourse and the curriculum: silences in the high school geography curriculum of South Africa
… geography curriculum and textbook, to search for discursive strategies which perpetuate the dominant ideology of apartheid. Apartheid ideology is dedicated to maintaining white supremacy. In practice, apartheid means the spatial separation of the population along racial/ethnic lines. Therefore …
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Teacher Perceptions about Diversity and the Achievement Gap: Understanding the Discursive Construction of Whiteness
… written and oral discourse revealed discursive strategies that detracted from issues of race. These discursive strategies are referred to by Irene Yoon (2012) as Whiteness-At-Work. The need for critical multicultural teacher education programs that effectively prepare …
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Institutional commitment to widening participation: mission, rhetoric and framing
… discourse analysis, the thesis analyses the discursive strategies that the HEIs used to position their widening participation work in marketing literature and open day settings, as well as via policy documents and statements made by staff. Bernstein’s (1990) notions of classification and …
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Razzismo quotidiano: la rappresentazione dello straniero nella stampa italiana (2000-2010)
… significant linguistic analysis of the discursive strategies involved in the texts. The use of text analysis software helped to fulfill the goal of carrying out an analysis which employs modern methods, able to overcome and enrich previous investigations on the matter, based mostly on …
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The linguistic foundations of leadership through actionable consensus
… discourse and corpus analyses, I focus on the discursive strategies which drive building actionable consensus. In so doing, I show the linguistic and communicative resources employed in building actionable consensus, allowing for a more complete understanding of both team dynamics and …
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Discourse and Device. The Power Strategies of Hildegard Medicine
… and biomedicine, I reveal power struggles and discursive strategies that have lead to its contemporary popularity in German culture. Yet while its interest to scholars of German cultural studies is plain, the ultimate significance of my investigation is more than academic. Hildegard Medicine is …
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Pamfletter! : En diskursiv praktik och dess strategier i tidig svensk politisk offentlighet
This thesis discusses argumentative strategies for legitimation and delegitimation in political pamphlets published in 1769 and in 1809–1810, each period representing the onset of democracy and freedom of the press. The aim of the study is twofold. The empirical aim is to examine the political …
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Analisando as estratégias dos influenciadores aplicados ao marketing digital: um estudo comparativo entre contas do setor do turismo no Instagram
… investigating the enunciation mechanisms and the discursive strategies of content creators. The research examines how argumentation, content curation, and discourse are used to build engaging narratives and promote audience engagement. In a scenario where communication becomes increasingly …
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James E. Shepard, the man and his message: a context-sensitive, discourse analysis of ‘God Bless Old North Carolina'
… answer the following research questions: 1. What discursive strategies did James E. Shepard use to influence public opinion regarding the North Carolina College for Negroes (NCCN) specifically and education for the black people of Durham generally? 2. How did he interpret his role in the black …
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