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Showing 1 to 20 of 1515 for “"discourse analysis"”.
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Exile identity : a discourse analysis
This study focuses on the discourses of exile identity and the subjectivity of an individual born in exile. The study also focuses on the methodology used whereby, unlike traditional research where the researcher interviews subjects; in this case the subjects interview the researcher. 6 individuals …
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Comprehensive discourse analysis of symbolic externalization
… a single case study design. A comprehensive discourse analysis method was used to study the therapeutic conversation within a 15 minute therapy episode in which therapist and clients externalized the problem of alcohol. The therapy episode was video-taped, audio-taped, transcribed and then …
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A discourse analysis of recovery stories
… a genealogical method to conduct a genealogical analysis of the recovery approach through exploration of UK policy within the last decade. This explores the conditions of possibility for its emergence in UK policy and mental health services and its growth. In the second part, a Foucauldian …
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Javanese Metaphors in Discourse Analysis (Indonesia)
This study focuses on three major issues: exploring the possibility of separating Javanese metaphors into universal and language-specific, proposing a model of understanding metaphors, and determining the domain within which metaphors are interpreted. A separation of Javanese metaphors into …
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Theorising evidence based policing: a discourse analysis
… perspectives after Foucault, this thesis reports discourse analytical research into selected EBP texts illuminating its ‘smaller practices’ to reveal relations of power, presented around story-lines, subject positionalities, and institutional modification. This thesis interrogates EBPs central …
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Men's talk about food: a discourse analysis
… a topic of study and consider the utility of a discourse analytic approach to men' 5 accounts in this area.
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A discourse analysis of pro-anorexia webstie
… framework, the present study employs Foucauldian discourse analysis as an analytic technique and examines the texts on the pro - anorexia website, the discursive constructions of anorexia and the (anorexic) body. The analysis revealed that there is no “authentic” self to be found. B y challenging …
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Gender differences in mathematics : a discourse analysis
… methodology of choice in this study is that of discourse analysis which makes clear both the positionings available to the participants as well as the power relations formed. The sample was drawn from a topachieving Std 8 Higher Grade class in an affluent Model C school. This sample represents a …
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Discourse analysis of interviews with manic patients
This thesis analyses the discourse of two manic patients, interviewed at an acute stage of their illness. The analysis has two aims: to begin a comprehensive analysis of manic discourse, a task which has not been undertaken in other work; and to describe and refine a methodology suited to the …
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Dialogue games : an approach to discourse analysis
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1982.
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Critical Discourse Analysis of Sexual Enhancement Medication Ads
… contributes to the expanding critical range of discourse analysis by analyzing texts used to market Viagra and other "sexual enhancement medication," pharmaceuticals that treat "erectile dysfunction". Applying elements of Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis framework, this study …
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A Discourse Analysis of University Internationalization Planning Documents
… biopower and governmentality were applied to a discourse analysis of the ways in which Big Ten universities’ internationalization planning documents allow for both the reproduction as well as the challenging of neoliberal economic rationalities that permeate university internationalization …
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Smart girls : a deconstructive discourse analysis of smartness
This project is a deconstructive discourse analysis of smart girlhood. From a feminist post structural framework, with a focus on discourse and performative identity, I scrutinize three dominant discourses of smartness that are prevalent and academic and popular press. These constructions frame …
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A multimodal discourse analysis of Saudi Arabic television commercials
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Ideologies of Nature and Sustainability: A critical discourse analysis
… discursive positionings that is central to the analysis of environmental education. The meaning of ‘nature’, our underlying attitude and our relationship to it is thus of critical significance to this thesis. Thirdly, this thesis explores how these ideologies manifest within the political …
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Curriculum Concept in Lithuanian General Education School: discourse analysis /
The dissertation analyses the discourse of curriculum concept in Lithuanian general education school aiming to investigate the conception of curriculum which is being used in Lithuanian general education school. The first part of the dissertation is based on the analysis of the research literature …
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ASPIRING LITERACY SPECIALISTS' (UN)CERTAINTY: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
… of this study was to explore the identities and discourses of 10 students who were completing their Literacy Education MS studies to gain certification as literacy specialists. More specifically, it asked: 1) What do beginning literacy specialists' discourses reveal about their evolving …
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Constructions of adoptive and foster mothering : a discourse analysis
… how these constructions intersect with dominant discourses of mothering. This qualitative study utilises a postmodern and poststructuralist ontology, and both social constructionist and feminist epistemologies. In-depth interviews were conducted with 21 adoptive and foster mothers and data were …
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