Political Discourse

How does the film waver between middle-class values and street values? (Relate to excerpt from There Are No Children Here reading). How does one’s social class need to be a part of any discussion of law and inequality?

​A discourse community is a group of individuals who share objectives, customs, and experiences. Arguably, an individual may have several discourse communities. For example, the said person could belong to a running community, food’s enthusiast community, a family, and a student community, which is also a discourse community. In some cases, these discourse communities may overlap as they share commonalities. More specifically, is the English class as the discourse community where students share perceptions of the course workload and how these perceptions influence their grades.

Language is an extensively complex topic. To effectively engage in a variety of social contexts one must be well versed in both the concept of 'Discourse' (so capitalised because of James Gee's discrimination between 'discourse' as "connected stretches of language that makes sense" and 'Discourse,' as a concept made up of various discourses as described by David Green, 2006, pp. 3 ), and the basic principles and 'codes' (Bernstein, 1960, as cited by Green, 2006) of the Discourse appropriate to each situation one encounters. A deficient working knowledge of the situational discourse leaves you vulnerable as what Green continues on to describe as an 'outsider' and therefore subject to being classified and treated as inferior. It is important to avoid a reflectively tyrannical system occurring within the classroom setting, as it leads to devaluing of individual children's culture and home Discourse through the process of placing them in direct conflict with the institutional school Discourse (Gee, 1990, Michaels 1981, as cited by Green, 2006).

Overall, it was effective. Her audience is mostly conservative as she is conservative, so the views she has and the views of her audience cross paths. There were not a lot of rhetorical devices, but the biggest reason why it was effective was because of the strong language she used, quotations from other sources and her very opinionated

The clients were constantly resisting the discourse that adults are more knowledgeable than children, and that adults know what is good for the clients. This discourse had an effect on the clients because they were been treated in manner that they knew less. In turn this caused the clients to resist this in a variety of behaviors. This discourse that adults are more knowledgeable than children also lead the adults to believe that they should have more power than the children, and that they should be able to control the children. This discourse had the line of force that affected the adults to acting in manner of attempting to control the clients. I think this had a lot to do with the labels child and adult. Instead of perceiving each other as simply as humans with fairly similar needs, we prescribed to the discourse of the concept a children and adults; how a children and adults are suppose to act, look, and think.

Throughout centuries there has been many different of societies that have existed. Many of those societies still existed as of today, however some of those societies have completely decimated in recent history. Having taking some history course in high I learned about quite a few of the different range of possible societies. In high school we covered past leaders such as Gandhi and Hitler, however past leader such as Thatcher and Friedman and their political view was never mentioned or brought up in class. In my opinion I believe that the reason why some of the social organization isn’t being discussed in mainstream public discourse is because they are as popular as they were in the past. Today we live in a society that is dominated by Neo-liberalism

A fundamental truth in American politics, as already stated, is that there will always be some level of partisan resistance within our essentially two party system. In 1964, partisan politics were starting to replace debates over issues as the main political discourse and A Time for Choosing takes full advantage of those sentiments. At the beginning of his speech, Reagan mentions his past as a liberal democrat. According to his own auto-biography, An American Life, Reagan aligned with the left until his relationship with conservative actress, Nancy Davis. During the duration of their relationship, Reagan had abandoned support for the democratic candidates in 1952 and 1956 in favor of the republican alternatives. He eventually registered as a GOP with the famous quip, “I didn’t leave the democratic party, the party left me.” He asserts this stance again in his speech for Goldwater. Towards the beginning of the speech, Reagan asserts that he had spent, “most of his life a democrat,” and continues with the claim he “recently” had “changed his course”. This line is brilliant at the beginning of a speech because it establishes ethos for Reagan immediately with moderates and rank and file democrats. He gets around the automatic resistance to “across the aisle” ideas by claiming he used to have the same viewpoints as some democrats before he switched parties. This causes those democratic audience members to view his argument less from an oppositional standpoint

A discourse analysis is “A broad term for the study of ways in which language is used in text and context” (about education, 2015). I will be looking at four different practitioners and seeing how I can analyse it with different theories and how it compares with different criminology literature. I will also be using the term jargon in some of my analysis of practitioners, this is “Special works or expression use by professional or group that are difficult for others to understand” (Oxford dictionary, 2015).

Dunmire (2012) overviewed a body of research known as political discourse analysis. She started by situating her work within the linguistic and political turns that took place within the human and social sciences. Adopting an inclusive conception of politics and discourse, Dunmire (2012) studied political discourse in terms of their theoretical and analytical frameworks and the socio-political issues.

On 26 September 2008, Senator Barak Obama, the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party and Senator John McCain, his Republican presidential contender started their first 96- minute debate answering questions about foreign policy and national security, including the global financial crisis. Only 4 minutes after the debate formally started, Obama launched his first metaphorical representation of the others: “Now, we also have to recognize that this is a final verdict on eight years of failed economic policies promoted by George Bush, supported by Senator McCain …” (Obama 2008).

My thoughts on the meaning of these two ways of thinking about discourse leads me to believe that the power of leaders emerge from the actions of their followers instead of the cause of it. I see it as being a procedure or project instead of it being a personal characteristic or as position of

Politics and the media have long been intimately involved with each other, with media strongly setting an agenda in which politics is very important. (Harris 1999,p.167) "Our perceived reality of the real world is largely a product of the media." (Harris 1999,p.186) It is not known which influences more but there are definitely two sides to the story. Many studies have been done to decide but each comes out with different answers. Many say that the media has more of an impact on politics than does politics on the media. "The two have always been natural adversaries." "Skewering each other in print and in conversation, but generally enjoying each other's company. (Forum)

Before beginning to address what CDA is, it is important to be clear about what is meant by the concepts of critical, discourse, and analysis:

“Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for a rejection of "extremists trying to silence the voices and opinions of everyone else around the world." Google featured a black ribbon on its homepage and Apple put a banner with the words "Je Suis Charlie" on its French website” (par.5). Again, one starts to pick up on a sarcastic tone in her next sentence, “This is all very fine and good, of course” (par.6). The tone is off putting, but this time, instead of offering her opinion of an idea using force, Cupp simply makes this snide comment, and moves on. Her tone is very rude. It is one thing to come off sarcastic and offer a good idea, but a whole other story to have a rude tone and not offer an explanation or an alternative idea. One cannot fathom believing she has a sound argument, when she does not even discuss an alternative course of action, but instead makes a sarcastic comment that ruins the effectiveness of her essay by making her sound like a know-it-all. Readers of this article will not enjoy Cupp’s essay if she continues to have such a rude tone. The more she basically insults the celebrities that people look up to, the more they will tune out what she has to

Political speeches are the crucial activity that links the different parts of society together and allow them to be as united entire. The core of political speech is the ability of the politician to use language and symbols that wake latent tendencies among the masses. Politics is a means for power in order to put certain political, economic and social concepts into practice. Language plays an essential role, for every political action is prepared, attended, influenced and played by language.so language and politics are closely interleaved.