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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"institutional discourse"”.
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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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Bridging Discourse: Connections Between Institutional and Lay Natural Philosophical Texts in Medieval England
… During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, institutional (ecclesiastical/university) scholars received and further developed this natural philosophical knowledge by reconciling it with Christian authoritative sources (the Bible and works by the Church Fathers). The subsequent discourse that …
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Advancing Equity in Financial Aid for Black Students: A Document Analysis Study of Student Equity Plans in California Community Colleges
… Colleges (CCCs) constructed financial aid discourse in Student Equity Plans (SEPs) and assessed whether these strategies mitigated or perpetuated racial disparities for Black students. Previous scholarship identified racial inequities in financial aid systems and explored how equity …
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Discovering the social organization of school library work
… others in the school. The researcher uses the institutional ethnograph frame of inquiry, providing a way of looking at the role and function of the school librarian/school media specialist as socially-organized and institutionally-oriented. Using ethnographic data gathering techniques of …
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Le nouvel esprit de l’université : une institution au défi de la troisième mission
… based on the one hand on the analysis of institutional discourse and on the other hand on semi-structured interviews conducted with actors in the academic world, but also outside it. Our observations show that the idea of a third mission covers both service to society, as it can be defined …
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Digital Geographies of Neoliberalised Nature and Conservation in Patagonia-Chile: Data, Maps, Platforms, and the Reconfiguration of ‘Natural’ and Conservation Spaces
… how authoritative organisations advance discourses and strategies to lead people to act as self-regulated environmental subjects who participate in conservation businesses such as ecotourism. This theoretical approach also emphasises the biopolitical component of neoliberal conservation …
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The use of discourse in the context of authoritarian diffusion
This study examines discourse in the broader context of authoritarian diffusion, focusing on how state-sponsored media and diplomatic platforms construct narratives that legitimise illiberal regimes, practices, and norms. Rather than presenting discourse as a direct causal mechanism, the research …
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Doing and talking : the value of video interviewing for researching and theorizing craft
… from but relating to art and design. The institutional craft world attempted to distance itself from Arts and Crafts ideology and from associations with the rural and the traditional. A key feature of the institutional discourse has been attempts to establish a definition of 'craft' as a …
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“Learning Discourse”: Learning Biographies, Embedded Speech And Discoursal Identity In Students' Talk : The Learning Discourses Of German Business Studies Undergraduates
The main research question of this study is: What discourses of learning and identity do students develop in relation to their individual learning histories, their experience of learning and of knowledge-acquisition in the HE environment, and how critically reflective are students of the …
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Exploring the Moral Dimension of Professors' Folk Pedagogy
… folk pedagogies. Second, it examines the discourse that emerged from the folk pedagogy investigation for its moral expressions and the insights it offered toward understanding how professors conceive of teaching as a moral endeavor. Finally, using narrative analysis as the guiding …
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A casa de Minerva: entre a ilha e o palácio - os discursos sobre os lugares como metáfora da identidade institucional
… from institutions. We also believe that institutional discourse or legal provisions sometimes fail to explain clashing discrepancies and contradictions, and evoke, if not perpetuate, the memory of certain groups in a specific social-historical context. We conceive discourse, expressed in …
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Identity construction in nurse practitioner-patient interactions
… identities, that is, how they inhabit the institutional role of patient or provider through particular linguistic moves and stylistic choices. A great deal of scholarly effort has been devoted to understanding language use in medical visits; however, these studies have focused almost …