This paper offers an analysis of the concepts access and equity using CLA to highlight the complexity of the discourse and the nature of the contested conceptual space. An historical context is used to situate the discourse and place the tension between open ended and closed interpretations of these terms in their historicalcultural context. The social imaginary is applied to the field of socia...

first, fairclough has considered the concrete texts in a linguistic position, then identified discourses which is based on the text and finally describe their dependency to micro social theories. his purpose has been to aware consumer of media texts in critical language. every text leads readers towards an understanding of certain facts. the main concern of fairclough has been the identificatio...

Student resilience and emotional wellbeing are essential for both academic and social development. Earlier studies on tracking students’ happiness in academia showed that many of them struggle with mental health issues. For example, a 2015 study at the University of California Berkeley found that 47% of graduate students suffer from depression, following a 2005 study that showed 10% had conside...

Therapeutic discourse is the talk in interaction between clinician and client that aims to improve themental health of a client.Therapeutic discourse can be conducted in a wide range of institutional settings, varying from primary-care medicine, to rehabilitation and social work. In psychotherapy, therapeutic discourse is the key activity, as the sole business of the psychotherapeutic encounter...

This article introduces a qualitative research method called discourse tracing. Discourse tracing draws from contributions made by ethnographers, discourse critics, case study scholars, and process tracers. The approach offers new insights and an attendant language about how we engage in research designed specifically for the critical-interpretive and applied analysis of discourse. More specifi...

The owners of social networks and researchers who are interested in text information processing recognize and use genre to identify network resource and participating in mutually understood communicative acts. Many studies have shown that, the genre can improve the ability to access resource in the information pool, such as music and book community. Some linguists describe genre as a distinctiv...

Целью статьи является рассмотрение новых коммуникативных практик, появившихся в блогосфере и способных оказывать влияние на социальную реальность медийного публичного пространства. Рассмотрены социально-коммуникативные аспекты дискурса блогера. Отмечены трудности, связанные с формулировкой понятия «блогер». Выявлены динамичные возможности блогосферы сравнении традиционными массмедиа. Сделан выв...

The formulation, adoption, and transformation of policy involves the interaction of actors as they negotiate, accept, and reject proposals. Traditional studies of policy discourse focus on social actors. By studying cryptography policy discourses, I argue that considering both social and technological actors in detail enriches our understanding of policy discourse. The case-based research looks...