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    Ana Dobrilovic Dr. Roberts Bilingual Education 9 February 2017 Assignment #2 The pluralistic discourse strongly supports multilingualism and advocates for building on diversity. This discourse believes that denying or ignoring people from different cultural backgrounds who speak different languages can lead to fragmentation and disunity. This discourse views bilingualism and multilingualism positively and that they are an asset to the world. Language is an integral part of our lives. It is how we

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    of which are of young people. Risk Discourse creates a risk society in response to specific populations being on the fringe of what is deemed “normal” within society. Risk discourse is a popular modernity term written at length by Modernist such as Ulrich Beck and Anthony Giddens European Sociologists. A Risk Society was not even a term until the 1980s. In the 1990s Risk Society became popular and it acceptance coincided with the infiltration of Risk Discourse into sociology, politics, literature

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    A discourse community is a group of people that share a set of values and goals. Members of a discourse community have their own way of communicating within the group and with the public. Although the communities may differ in subject matter and appearance, they do share varying levels of similarities. The three-discourse community that we will be focusing on are: art, research biology and finance: specifically, the financial service sector. Furthermore, we will be comparing the three-discourse communities

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    defines a discourse community as an exclusive group of people brought together by a common goal. According to John Swales (1990), every discourse community has six characteristics that makes them a discourse community. Overall the group must have a shared goal, in which they communicate with each other through different genres and lexis they have developed; genres are different types of communication that the group employ and lexis is the specialized language utilized by that particular discourse community

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    INTRODUCTION The present research paper dwells on contrastive analysis of pleonasm in Ukrainian and Anglophone political discourses. In political texts in general and speeches in particular, ideas and ideologies need to be conveyed through language, words and expressions are used in different ways to affect the meaning. Language system has great potential of redundant language means which can be imployed in speech in various ways. Redundancy in representing meanings of notions is a basis for a pleonasm

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    of view, discourse analysis in international relations has outlined a common set of standards for the other fields of language and social sciences. Discourse is a rather new field of analysis in the world of social research, and it does not yet have a precise and compact theoretical body. Accordingly, discourse analysis has to rely on the practices and concepts taken from other fields such as sociology, semantics, psychology, linguistics etc. Due to its vast source of knowledge, discourse has analytical

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    that as it may, her later clarifications of discourse and practice groups cleared up our disarrays and enabled us to get back on track. It was powerful in displaying her theory since she specified announcement that inhabitants are all piece of a similar discourse group and afterward proceeded onward to utilize the announcement to reinforce her point that discourse group concentrates too exclusively on dialect. I for one had no inclination amongst discourse and practice group, however contention

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    Methodology Critical Discourse Analysis In writing this paper, the writer derives the theory from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), which is an approach to the analysis of discourse which maintains that, language is a social practice and analyses how ideologies and power relations are approached in language (Fairclough & Wodak, 1997, p 258; Lin & Guo, 2016). Fowler and Kress, 1979; Van Dijk, 1993, 1983; Fairclough & Wodak, 1997; Wodak & Meyer, 2009, and Foucault, 1972, are among theorists who have

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    In understanding the relationship between The Prince and the Discourses from the perspective of the Prince as a tool of deception, it is important to interpret it through the historical context of which Machiavelli was living in. Machiavelli was born in Florence, which was the heart of the Renaissance. Machiavelli had a long and complex relationship with the rulers, the Medici family. Before the Medici obtained power, Machiavelli had an important role in politics as a high-ranking official in the

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    ill-prepared writers, incompetent and limited to one discourse community. i.e. bad “products.” However, English 3010 is a course for upper-level students, and the emphasis is on conducting research by drawing from the sciences, social sciences, humanities, and professions in preparation for Writing Intensive courses in the majors and beyond. In relation to the course learning outcomes, the works I have done have been majorly about Discourse, discourse communities, genres, writing expertise, research

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