This paper presents an investigation to determine the bases of power in Obama's political discourse and the forms of identifying them in relation to power influence tactics. It attempts to describe the relations between these two variables and the benefits of determining such relations. This paper focuses on Obama's political discourse in American late night talk shows. The study draws a compar...

The present study was aimed at exploring the use of pronominal reference for identity representation in terms of power and solidarity in English political discourse. The investigation was based on a corpus of four political interviews and debates amounting 26,500 words. The analysis was both qualitative and quantitative. In the qualitative analysis, a discourse-analytic approach was used to fin...

Investigation and thinking on concepts such as knowledge, power and legitimacy is considered one of the most important subjects in this study.Till now, the concepts of knowledge and power by using Foucault's discourse on Ghazali political thought, have not studied by researchers And this is may be one of the innovations of this research. Of course, in this article we will act descriptive – anal...

The present study is a part of a broader multisited field study on involvement of relatives in Danish psychiatry. The article aims to elucidate which political classifications of normality and mental illness that are displayed in two health political campaigns regarding anti-stigmatization and social inclusion and how such classifications co-constitute the subjectivity of individuals suffering ...

1 Do online political discussions tend to aggregate diverse voices in cross-cutting debate and deliberation? Or do " audiences " for online discussion tend to fragment into ideological echo chambers? In the wilds of threaded discussion on the internet (as opposed to deliberative polls, moderated discussions, and other designed venues of deliberation), networks of political discourse emerge from...

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...

I argue that the terms lethal control, nonlethal control, and live trap are no longer suffi ciently precise for continued use in the scientifi c community. Their continued use confuses the public and allows animal protectionists to use them as cudgels in political discourse. Alternative terms are recommended to resolve the semantic and subsequent political issues surrounding the traditional terms.