Essays on Discourse

Foundation Course – Researching Psychology

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The research being conducted has practical, theoretical and scientific value in the research field. Lacanian discourse analysis helps identify the treatment in psychoanalysis, can be applied to studying mental and social characteristics of a language spoken by various minorities.
An interviewer and an interviewee took part in a research; the conversation was written down and attached to the paper on the consent of the interviewee. The theory of Lacanian Discursive Analysis has been applied to the paper in order to identify the symbolic and the imaginary unconscious reflected in the language spoken.
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Language is one of the most, if not the most, important tool we have when communicating with each other. People talk and use different vocabulary when they talk to their siblings, their co-workers, or their friends. They also act different around them and the study of the behavior of a specific cultural group is called ethnography. Ethnography is “a qualitative research design aimed at exploring cultural phenomena. The resulting field study or a case report reflects the knowledge and the system of meanings in the lives of a cultural group” (Gee 2003). There are ...

Abstract

This report intends to present a deeper understanding of the core issues related to the analysis of one of the tales of Apartheid Archive Project. The methodology section is to explain basic concepts which are used in the analysis of the tale and to justify and contextualize the employed approach. The analysis part is intended to identify the key concepts that hold the narrative together, identify its role within the apartheid system and establish any overriding effect which it has on political and social level. The conclusion support the notion that the subjective account of one's experience can be ...

A discourse community refers to a group of people or communicators who share a common goal or interest and therefore choose to go by a selected way of participating in public activities. These people also have a way of engaging that distinctively sets them aside from the larger group of people in a particular setting (Bakhtin66). The preferred way of engagement is commonly referred to as discursive practices. These are the practices that a discourse community chooses to use and they include various genres. These genres can be books, academic papers, debates and even physical activities. In Oklahoma University, ...

Analysis of Spoken Discourse in the Film If Only

Abstract
Spoken discourse focuses on the words the speakers say and how these are spoken to convey a message. The film If Only, presents a series of conversations that revealed the events of the story. This study transcribes three major scenes to identify the frequency of key terms as mentioned by the characters. The verbal data were then segmented and coded for analysis. The theory of face-work was used as the conceptual framework of the study and the conversations were examined to identify how characters saved their face and protect the face of the persons they are having the ...

Paper I (s1)

Teo, P. (2000). Racism in the News: A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Reporting in Two Australian Newspapers. London: Sage Publications. Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 7-49.

RESEARCH TOPIC

Racism in the news: a Critical Discourse Analysis of news reporting in two Australian newspapers.
RESEARCH QUESTION(S)
- What is the probe for ideological construction of racism imbricated within the structure of newspaper reporting?
- Is there evidence of systematic ‘othering and stereotyping of ethnic community by the white majority?

METHODOLOGY

Data: News reports and articles, political interviews
- The newspaper headlines were used to express a high form of concise, crux ...

Language as discourse started with post-structuralist philosopher Michel Foucault, who wanted to understand the relationship between language, social institutions, subjectivity, and power (Weedon, 1997; Bryson, 2003; Mansfield, 2000). Foucault looked specifically at how bodies, in everyday situations, perform their gender category, their class position and their place in culture (such as sexual orientation, normative standards of beauty and mental health). Foucault also looked at how something comes to be true by looking at the political and economic institutions that produce truth (Schirato, Danaher & Webb, 2012)
Foucault (1980a) argues that as peoplewe acquire language theywe learn the way how to ...

The goal of many ESL students is to develop their oral and writing skills in the English language. This ability is critical in enabling ESL students to analyze the written and spoken discourse of the community. In the end, they will be able to customize their learning, select appropriate discourse materials suitable for their own reading and writing, and finally, be able to choose their area of interest. The introduction of discourse analysis is a good strategy for helping teachers and students in the ESL community to take charge of their language development.

Qualification of the ESL community as a Discourse Community

Language building is an important, if ...

In her article, ‘From Pariah State to Global Protagonist: Argentina and the Struggle for Human Rights’, Kathryn Sikkink provides a luminous illustration on the role that Argentina has played in shaping the human rights discourse in the world. Sikkink’s main point is that most of the human rights practices and conventions of the world trace their roots to the Argentina. She notes that while many would naturally expect practices to flow from the more powerful countries to the less powerful countries, this has not necessarily been the case as far as the field of human rights is concerned. ...

There are several studies that have been conducted to analyse women’s and men’s speech across various cultural identities. The main goal of the studies has been to find out whether there is a difference in the way men and women speak. Speech behaviour of both genders can be analysed in respect to language usage, phonology, verbal choice and the general interactions between men and women in discourse.

Conventionally, most of the sociolinguists look at the issue of gender in discourse in connection with the level of education, ethnic background, socio-economic status and the age of the individuals involved. Most of the researches that have been conducted have shown that the difference in language mainly result from the perception that men dominate women and that the speech behaviour of the women is as a result of a deviation from the male speech norms (Fasold, 2000). According to some scholars, the male-female communication is cross-cultural and in most cases people from different genders often depicts different speech norms and usually have different expectations for their respective interlocutors. ...

Question No. 5: Living Culture –

Gender, Sexuality, and Race
Gender, sexuality, and race are less biological facts than the outcome of contextually specific discourses and discursive practices. Explain with reference to no more than two aspects of identity.

Living Culture –

Gender and Race
Introduction
Gender, sexuality, and race are less biological facts of how human identity develops than the outcome of contextually specific discourses and discursive practices connected to ethnicity and cultural interchanges. The following scholastic exercise defines how social science prods the ethnic and cultural interchanges of humans in their discourse and discursive practices. In turn, the following describes how this affects human identity gender, ...

Anytime a nursing student is questioned as to why he/she chose nursing as a career path, the most obvious answer they usually give is that they had the intention of learning how to save lives. Today, if someone asked me why I decided to join the nursing class in college, I’m most likely to give the same answer. However, the actual reason as to why I decided to embark on this career path was, because I did not consider myself smart enough to pursue medicine. I never really wanted to be a nurse since I had a misguided ...

Excessive alcohol consumption of alcohol is currently a public issue around the globe. The alcohol abuse accounts close to 7 percent in the developed nations. Alcohol is the causal of 50 medical conditions that result in long-term health issues (Hassan & Shiu, 2007). Alcohol consumption is most prevalent on the young adult population. Many students account for risky drinking behavior. Different journal issues generate interest on issues concerning binge drinking among the students. The facts and statistics question on the best way to educate the young people especially students to ensure they are within safe drinking limits. This paper will ...

In Swales’ “The Concept of Discourse Community,” he reiterates the differences between the speech community and discourse community. As he discusses his position on discourse community, Swales makes it clear that a discourse community is characterized by several inherent characteristics. These characteristics include “agreed set of common goals” (Swales, 471: 11), which may be defined in documents such as organization constitutions. Other characteristic include “mechanisms of intercommunication” (Swales, 471: 12), “participatory mechanism” (Swales, 472: 14), and a member has “relevant content.” In Wardle’s “Identity, Authority, and learning to Write in New Workplaces” she discusses the intrigues of communicating ...

The archaeology of knowledge as presented by Michel Foulcault provides and an exploration of language and description of culture. Rather than integrating different concepts of unity in describing historical ideas structurally, he explains why discontinuity is a common feature in discursive statements. Foucault explains that the system of dispersion is the underlying reality in all discursive statements, rather that chains of inferences, which are used in the unification of historical ideas. This paper will explore the discursive formation in exploring the changing conventions in the world of music, which has been commonly referred to as Ethnomusicology.
The role of ...

Term Paper: Jean Jacques Rousseau vs. John Locke

Economic inequality is a menace that has been witnessed in the developing and the developed nations since ancient times. Legislation regarding the ownership of property has drawn heated criticism from various scholars and human rights activists. John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau are among the activists who have expressed strong ideas concerning the issue of ownership of private property. John in the Second Treaties of Government takes a soft stance. He defends the natural right of acquiring private property despite the economic inequalities that the move bears to the people of the nation. John’s stance on the matter has ...

Writing is a way young and talented people can express the capacity to convey their ideas. Written text expresses the identity of its author, his creativity and understandingof the world. The material of these two articles is all related to the topic of writing as on art of self-realization for adolescents. Children and teenagers perceive the process of academic writing and analyzing of information in their own way that significantly differs from their tutors’ ideas. So similarities and differences between these two articles fully represent and explain the process of writingconstruction for teenagers that aim to enter discourse community ...

[Critical Discourse Analysis of Transcript]

Introduction

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a branch of etymology that looks to see how and why certain writings influence readers and listeners. Through an examination of the syntax, it means to reveal the 'shrouded philosophies' that can affect a peruser or listener's perspective of the world. Investigators have taken a gander at a wide mixed bag of speech and composed writings – political statements, promoting, standards and regulations – trying to exhibit how message makers use second language (wittingly or not) in a manner that could be ideologically huge.
A hefty portion of the apparatuses utilized ...

African American History

Introduction
Discursive formations an explanation of the human behavior attempts to undermine the archeological historical analysis. In the discursive formations analysis, human beings are not the center analysis to avoid problems associated with anthropological approaches used earlier. This discursive formation analysis can be used in explaining the revolutionary discourses that constantly undermined the history of Europe towards the end of the nineteenth century. At the end of the middle ages, there was an increased power struggle and increased women's participation in social and political activities. The same period experienced the first wave of feminism when women's emancipation movements covered ...

In his “Discourse on Inequality” Rousseau addresses the psychological and political effects of property ownership on human nature and society. He criticizes the inequity of modern institutions and traces their origins back showing how the evolution of humankind established the relationship between property, society and inequality. Originally written in 1754 as an entry for a competition run by the Dijon Academy of Arts and Sciences it established him as an important philosopher. The original question was “What is the origin of inequality among men, and is it authorized by the natural law?” Although his first discourse won the competition ...

Marketing Products and Services

Theory of Branding Imagery and Attributes
Marketing Products and Services
Theory of Branding Imagery and Attributes

Introduction

Literature provides the dimensions of the impact of the theory of branding imagery and its attributes in marketing products and services as applied to this process in the Nokia and Microsoft agreement. Aligned to this is how textual stimuli combined with the influence pictorial marketing practices using product brand engages the consumer in spending decision-making behavior. Purposeful evaluation of the theory of branding reveals quality consumption as well as sophisticated visionary reactions to advertising producing emotional reaction and responses to the reputation of ...

The development of English literacy instructional programs has provided teachers the opportunity to inculcate ‘English Literacy Learners (ELLs)’ with appropriate strategic models. Literacy instructional models now embrace an appreciation for cultural diversity. In terms of linguistic variety brought to schools, the concept engages learners to excel in reading, writing, and generally to grasp an appreciation for language diversity in literacy. John McWhorter explains that “growing up in America” advances the notion that any English dialect veering away from the so-called ‘good’ English spoken on TV news programs represents “evidence of grungy mitts” leaving filthy prints on the sanitized “formica ...

Management

Introduction
Extensive research has been carried out in the area of linking leadership qualities with that of business management and communication in the post-bureaucratic era. The main tenets of an excellent leader are those of charisma, decisive, heroic, inspirational and authoritative. The workplace language has a plethora of spoken interactions which helps in examining the manner in which leaders behave in face to face and virtual communication. At the same time, there have been extensive research in trying to determine a large variety of leadership styles and its relationship with communication.

Leadership in post-bureaucratic era

Leadership as explained by Clegg, Kornberger and Pitsis ( ...

Introduction

For many years, scholars have strived to develop analytical modalities, which identify and engineer analytical thoughts, aimed to compare racial formations in relation to race scholarship. Unlike racial formation construct that identifies and groups communities based on prior modalities, race scholarship approach focuses on the universality and historical similarities of different communities in the world. In essence, racial scholarship approach holds the view that there exist commonalities among communities of color across different cultures; that is premised on racial and ethnic solidarity coupled with homogeneity and historical similarity of the people. Although prior modalities provide an insight of the ...

JUNK OR JEWEL

TELEVISION 2
ABSTRACT
Different scholars have had different opinions on the significance and scope of television in defining the public discourse and catapulting it to newer heights. So, often a clash of opinions is encountered. While Neil Portman in 1984 had very poignantly described in Amusing Ourselves to Death (Portman, 1984) that how the electronic media was doing everything for the sake of entertainment, Matt Quayle showed in The Method Of Medium Is In Motion how the same medium has changed and gotten enhanced stupendously to support public discourse over last twenty five years (Quayle, 2010). This essay analyzes ...

Language is the most sophisticated means of communication. Our world is based on communication. We receive most information through communication. Here we have written and oral discourse. Every sphere of life has it`s specific language. Because of the great development of the technological progress and especially because of computerization, electronic discourse has appeared. However is this type of discourse the same as our everyday speech? This is our main task for comparing.
Thanks to the Internet we are able to get in touch with a person who lives in another part of the world. For this purpose we ...

Different methodologies are applied by researchers in their attempt to explain problems faced by organizations. There’s interrelationship with other disciplines such as economics, industrial relations, sociology, political science, psychology among others to this regard. As time goes by, newer organizational constructs as well as theories are developed to address certain phenomenon that have not yet been identified while others attempt to develop new mechanisms of dealing with old problems. Such organization research studies include the Discourse of Globalization, Fuzzy-set approach to typologies in organization research, healthcare safety and quality improvement research among others.

Within Fuzzy-set approach to typologies ...

Any given form of writing is usually meant to convey a given information theme or even to evoke a certain feeling. Virtually every writing can be subjected to a discourse analysis whose findings can be reported in the form a reflective essay, having analyzed how information in the given piece of writing has been presented to the reader, the feelings that the writing evoke and most importantly, the use of language in the given piece of writing. Writings in music, are not exempted, and can also be subjected to discourse analysis; ...

Anthropology

According to the various studies and observations observed in the contemporary world, the neuroscientists argue that the evolution of humankind had reached the satiation point. It is expected that the mental capabilities and capacities, organ functions and the shape of the body will most probably change into the worse for the coming years. As a result, many people, including Max More believes that technology and science are the fundamental aspects to save the human race. This is most apparent in the contemporary society where human biological bodies are replaced with mechanical or cloned bodies. According to Max, the whole ...

The Chinese opera The White-haired Girl which was created in the 1940s and based on a folktale achieved a great success in Yan’an. Because of its big following, this story was further adapted to a film in the 1950s, and to a ballet in the 1960s. With the evolution of different versions, The White-haired Girl had gradually transformed from being a fantastic folk legend into a national myth concentrating on class, liberation, and revolution. In order to understand and explore such transformation, this paper will utilize the story’s 1945 opera edition, its 1950 film version, and its ...

The football team

American football is the most popular and the most lucrative sport in the United States. Every state has dozens of football teams which play in the NFL’s championship, college football, youth football or high school championships. The Super Bowl is the most prestigious American Football event that takes place annually between the winners of the Eastern and the Western conference.
I have been to the USA for two years now and I have enjoyed every bit of it. It’s a great country with wonderful people who have great passion in what they are involved in their daily ...

Introduction

In the specific discourse community of business, the focus is usually on marketing, finance, management, entrepreneurship and accounting. It then follows that the background fundamentals of business is the coordination of the various functions of the divided sections in their attempt to aimed at achievement of goals is of importance. Persuasive writing skills would be intrinsically mandatory for any individual involved in business.
The various business subdivisions are more persuasive based. For instance, marketing is more of making appeals to customers for them to consider buying from you other than from competitors. Accounting involves calculation of business orders for ...

NARRATOLOGY

Gerard Ganette was the great French literary theorist who is famous for his contribution in the field of narratology. His ‘Discours’ rightfully turned out to be a standard reference for the description of narrative theory due to the reason that it provides a model in relation to what systematic description, the writers can achieve. According to a preface of Gerard Ganette to the work of Kate Hamburger, with the title ‘The Logic of Literature’ that was published in the year 1986 in France,
“Fiction is not connected with narrative since one cannot study fictional narrative as narrative and as ...

The various social media tools that have risen from Web 2.0 technologies are arguably some of the most powerful new tools of the century. Social media allows an unprecedented amount of connection between individuals, companies, groups, and any combination thereof. One of the major things that social media offers the individual is immediate access to information regarding nearly any subject; anything that happens in the world is immediately posted on social media outlets. Indeed, news can even be found more readily on social media sites than from traditional news outlets in some cases.
However, there are drawbacks to this ...

in the Modern Analysis of Novelistic Prose

Bakhtin’s Heteroglossia and its Place in the Modern Analysis of Novelistic Prose

In the King James Bible, the Gospel of John opens with the following words, “In the beginning was the Word.” The unquestionable immutability of the Word is emphasized in the text that follows – “and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” While for Michail Bakhtin, the Russian philosopher and linguist, having just one meaning of the spoken words – whether in regular life or in novels – is something that signifies “the narrowness of this type of thinking and its inadequacy in all areas of discourse’s artistic life.” For him, ...

Book Review - Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip Hop and Black Politic

Lester K. Spence's 2011 book Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip Hop and Black Politics takes a long, hard look at the current state of African-Americans in the predominant political discourse. In essence, Spence explores through this book and its scholarship the idea that rap and hip-hop culture may actually be bad for black politics; "this work represents an attempt to examine the core questions of black politics as well as the politics of the present using rap and hip-hop as the vehicle" (Spence 157). Despite galvanizing many African-Americans and creating a unique subculture, it is claimed ...

DID ROUSSEAU REMAIN TRUE TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT MOVEMENT’S VALUES?

Rousseau was an influential member of the Enlightenment Movement and for many years had a close, productive relationship with other members. For example, he wrote almost all the entries on music in Encyclopaedia of Diderot. In fact Rousseau wrote at one time that Diderot was his closest friend and they spent time together almost every day.1 About 1750, unfortunately, a difficult break was made between the others in the movement and Rousseau. He was accused of disagreeing with the basic philosophical tenets of the movement and in effect muddying ...

Introduction

The sociology of childhood in the contemporary society focuses on the social construction of the child. The social construction of the child deals with how the child differs in terms of social, cultural, historical, and economic perspectives (Shanahan, 2007). Sociology of childhood deals with viewing the child from these different perspectives unlike in the traditional way. The traditional way failed to understand childhood in the socio-cultural, sexualized, and gendered context. The sociology of childhood identifies ways through which the interaction of children and adults: challenges; produces; reproduces; and transforms the society and childhood. This article discusses the sacralisation of ...

MOTIVATIONS OF CODE-SWITCHING

Code switching is currently considered one of the main subjects of study in linguistics. This can be shown by the fact that within the last decade most of the major conferences on linguistics had at least one paper on the subject. One of the topics within the subject that has been of interest to sociolinguists is on the communicative intention of this phenomenon. The researches in this particular topic make a scientific attempt to understand and clarify why people engage in code switching (Wardhaugh, 2009, p. 85). Why two or more people that understand two or more languages would ...

Mexican mural paintings represented a combination of artistic aesthetics as well as public ideals as elements of the formal public sphere. Through the analysis of three images from the Mexican Muralist Movement, this paper will explore the Mexican Muralist Movement as an avenue for direct participation by the artists in the publicity and dialogue (Campbell 55). The paper will also show the murals as avenues through which visual dialogs in the images are integrated into the various communicative practices that define official publicity (Campbell 71). The paper will also argue that the murals served as the visual registers of ...

Introduction

I have always wanted to be graphic designer. Ever since my father bought me my first art box in 4th Grade, I was immediately drawn to the phenomenon that is art. I knew that my future career field would have something to do art. As I grew up and went to high school, I became more enthusiastic about art and also computers. For instance in high school, I was always enthusiastic about the computer assignments given to us in computer class, particular those, which involved simple graphic design tasks. That was when I decided that I would pursue graphic ...

Introduction

It has been documented by many researches that various forms of adversity are at the heart of many mental illnesses. Indeed, even the term mental health recasts a social problem as a psychological and medical one. And, as would be expected, people addressing multiple forms of adversity, poverty and disability and social exclusion adversity, for instance, are likely than others to seek, or be sent to mental health services. While violence is the most common experience for people with severe and long-term mental illnesses, it is far the only adversity at issue. This can be addressed through open dialogue. ...

Reflective Summary on Human Learning (Sixth Edition) by

Reflective Summary on Human Learning (Sixth Edition) by

Introduction

Reflection of the first designated chapters of the Ormrod (2008) textbook on Human Learning (Sixth Edition) provides a broad spectrum of the evolution of the science of learning providing understanding of the cognitive abilities aligned to the human learning experience. From the onset of this reflection and choosing the two areas personally affecting the subjectivity of understanding self, changing beliefs about learning, and influencing the professional goal of attaining the role of teacher, it became apparent there was more to this process than just two chapters. First, Boud et al (1994) ...

W.H. Auden's poem "Say the City Has Ten Million Souls,"

ABSTRACT
Analysis of the Auden's (1939) poem, "Say This city Has Ten Million Souls" provides the opportunity for connecting the social precepts of place and displacement offered by Aschcroft et al (1989) for explaining the plight of the refugee as marginalized by the host society. In doing so, the poem becomes a lens for understanding the use of Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis Model for assessing the three dimension of literature. The outcome of the following academic discussion provides a tapestry of the psychological, emotional, and social, challenges of the ...

The historical evolution path that led to the development of computers had a strong bearing in determining and explaining the strategy that America employed in its military during the period of cold war and largely serves as mythological representation of our perceptions of the future. The mainframe computers are icons that brought America into what we know of it today (super-power).Edwards in his book, ‘The closed World’, tries to develop an argument that computers played an important practical role in the cold war defense and also served to provide support, technological in nature, in the different discourses that ...

ABSTRACT

This academic exploration of the underpinnings of the psychology of marketing provides timely research outcomes providing understanding for consumer marketing focus connected to human behaviour. In doing so, the literature provides historical and contemporary scientific findings about human cognitive abilities used by marketing schemas focused on sales through consumer buying models. In addition, this academic investigation looks at marketing research from a critical perspective offering further insights by professionals in the field of human behaviour in marketing. Included in this discourse is a perspective of where marketing research and human psychological behaviour need further investigation for creating ethical, substantial, ...

Do zombies represent the white collar criminals from the financial crisis? That is the question I was asking myself after reading Torie Bosch’s article “First, Eat All the Lawyers.” zombies highly populate our pop culture. From movies to novels to television our world has become seemingly overflowing with zombies. Surprisingly sometimes there are even more zombies than there are vampires. Bosch tries to persuade us that the zombie craze is pop culture’s device to help us deal with the economic crisis. If the economic crisis has brought us zombies in our entertainment, does that mean the zombies ...

Smartphone: Samsung Galaxy S III

Introduction

Advertising has virtually shaped the way mobile technologies are promoted and commercialized to targeted consumers. Advertising is dominantly used to shape the perceptions and thoughts of individuals in relation to a given product (Lacey 1998, p. 56). This is the platform that written, audio and visual adverts of Samsung Galaxy S III have adopted. Samsung Galaxy S III adverts have adopted certain distinguished features of media literacy that help them in attracting the current generation of consumers who are opting for digital and business-centric smart phones. The distinguished features of media literacy adopted by the smart phone are ...

Practice and theory in social work

Anti-oppressive practice is a theory on social work. It deals with the oppressive activities that take place in the communities, cultures and economies. The main objective of the theory is to abolish oppressive activities. Anti oppressive practice is done by practitioners as well as learners in the social movement, which is managed by women and black people. The theory tries to remove inequalities that are found in the society. Additionally; beyond the discourses’ boundaries, practitioners discover questions that enable people to think about power as well as possibility. The essay below discusses the anti-oppressive theory, how it intersects with ...

Task:

This paper will examine how postmodern perspective has enabled policy analysts provide a comprehensive policy analysis. These will address how postmodern perspective analysis has shaped the decision-making in the policy –making process, which deal with the discourse and identity of the welfare policies in trying to address the aspect of poverty. In its scope, postmodern perspective deals with the political insinuations of linguistic practices and applies the use of similes and imagery which has a significant contribution of constructing and studying public policy. Postmodern inquiries into discursive building of the factor of identity have the ability to make a ...

Introduction

Since 1890, XYZ University has been educating children of the middle-class in this part of the US midwest. Originally founded as a normal school for the training of teachers, XYZ has expanded to a respected regional university with an array of undergraduate programs in the arts and sciences. Still proud of its teacher’s college, XYZ also has a thriving business school, as well as a nationally recognized arts and theater division. Located in an area that remains relatively rural, XYZ is a source of vibrant public programming in arts and culture for the local populace. It also runs ...

Judging this conflict using the philosophical article of Rousseau ‘discourse on origin of inequality’

Rousseau’s philosophical article discourse on the origin of inequality was an attempt to analyze the source of evil and inequality that have been boggling man since his existence in this world. Rousseau in his article wrote that the very evil that faces humanity has originated from selfish behavior of the natural man. To him the man who first installed boundaries on his perceived property became the source of all evil in the world today. In this article Rousseau, wrote that life was initially good when people just had enough to make them survive and enough personal space. The ...

English

The Yellow Wallpaper is a short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman which first appeared in the 1892 edition of the New England Magazine. The story narrates the perils of an anonymous women who is confined by her doctor husband. The tale narrates the manner in which the main protagonist becomes obsessed by the yellow wallpaper in her room during her period of confinement by her patriarchal husband. Gilman’s short tale intricately describes the oppression of women living in a patriarchal society. The main theme being feminist in nature, the short story has inspired several linguistic analysis. Despite the ...

English Speakers of Other Languages

In the study of the particular filed experience, an important aspect which has been obtained is that of second language acquisition. Particularly for English speakers of other languages, it is an important factor that influences understanding and communication. One particular theory of second language acquisition is behaviorism theory that state language is basically a set of structures and acquisition of the same is dependent on habit formation . In other words, it states that acquisition of a language is dependent on the acquisition of automatic linguistic habits. The reason this theory is highlighted here is Rashel has exhibited the same ...

Writing about the discrimination of women, Gearhart (1979) mentions that the act of violence in the one that rules a person and is the very fact of existence for a human. She singles out our understanding of human entities and non-human ones claiming that “we have been human chauvinists too long, calling consciousness out own, cornering the market upon it, setting ourselves above everything human because of our “higher awareness”. She believes that distinguishing between human and non-human objects changes them, and, as a result, becomes an act of violence: “The act of violence is in the intention to ...

Introduction

Language and emotion are two primary elements that make up the real value of what good human communication is about. The condition by which humans create worthy conversations is dependent on the idea that identifies well with what good connection is about. What then is good communication? In this presentation the presence of specific communication parallels that identify well with what good conversation is about shall be given particular attention to.
Among the communication elements to be given focus are the aspects of emotional value, psychological indicators and vocabulary-and-grammatical construct. These three aspects are seen to have the greatest ...

Political ideologies coupled with mild political views strive to create a balance between individual liberty and rights and government’s power to regulate peoples’ behavior and maintain status quo. The balanced that is created as a result of incorporating various political ideologies and political views has implications on government structure, economy, political discourse and other facets of the society. Although this is true, most political ideologies embrace change that will restore and maintain social stability, but proponents of various political ideologies fail to agree on the most suitable ideology thus eliciting a heated debate on this subject. Liberalism and ...

Introduction

Pragmatically, the deviant behaviour of white-collar criminals provides students of sociology a different exploration of how human nature works in clandestine operations in plain view. Society, at least superficially does not suspect a so-called white-collar individual of criminal behaviour in general, as stereotypes tend to lead people’s thoughts in the direction one way or another. While, the dishevelled, unkempt, anti-social “looking” individual exists as suspect of deviant behaviour by his/her mere appearance including labelled as a criminal in some regards, the white collar individual stands in society appearance wise as an upstanding citizen (Goode 2008).

Historically, the concept of white collar is not so new:

Edwin Sutherland created ...

The marketing communication for a product or service from a verbal and visual perspective is based on the premise to create recognition and an eventual trial and loyalty of the prospective consumers.
In this age of a cluttered business environment and an intense competition amid all product and service availability in view of a globalized business environment, the significance of targeting a consumer segment through marketing communication using different channels is paramount.
When it comes to fashion brands the usage of the images and verbal discourse used gains precedence in view of the fact that most fashion brands targets ...

Introduction

Among the highly controversial themes that Orhan Pamuk explores in his novel “Snow”, such as political Islamism versus secularism, the installment of martial law, political exile, suicide, the writer also treats a current issue, very debated nowadays, which is the Islamist feminism, reflected through the resistance to the head scarf banning in public spaces. A cultural trend defending the values of the Islamic society arose in Turkey, as presented in Pamuk’s writing, which end-up in a girls’ suicidal wave, when confronted with the brutal opposition of secularism, which attempt to modernize Turkey by banning the head scarf wear ...