Journal articles: 'Four discourses'

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Jacques Lacan. "There Are Four Discourses." Culture/Clinic 1 (2013): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.5749/cultclin.1.2013.0003.

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Ratekin, Tom. "Working Through The Four Discourses." Prose Studies 28, no. 1 (April 2006): 74–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440350600593763.

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Bracher, Mark. "Lacan's theory of the four discourses∗." Prose Studies 11, no. 3 (December 1988): 32–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440358808586349.

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Braunstein, Nestor A. "The transference in the four discourses." Prose Studies 11, no. 3 (December 1988): 50–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01440358808586350.

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문경. "A Study of Joe Christmas’s Discourse: Based on Jacques Lacan’s Four Discourses." English21 26, no. 2 (June 2013): 67–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.35771/engdoi.2013.26.2.004.

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Hokka, Johanna. "What counts as ‘good sociology’? Conflicting discourses on legitimate sociology in Finland and Sweden." Acta Sociologica 62, no. 4 (December 27, 2018): 357–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0001699318813422.

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This qualitative study explores how sociology is legitimated among established Finnish and Swedish sociology professors, who are conceived as a scientific elite. Drawing on a Bourdieusian framework, the analysis traces the discourses that define legitimate sociology in these two national contexts, and the relations between those discourses. While the scientific elite of Finnish and Swedish sociology share four discourses – the Excellence, Humboldtian, Emancipatory and Policy discourses – the relative value of each differs between the different national contexts. The Excellence discourse dominates in the Finnish data, while the Humboldtian discourse is dominant in the Swedish data. The emphases on the other two discourses also vary: in Finnish interviews, the Policy discourse holds a strong position, while the Emancipatory discourse is articulated only with nostalgia; in Swedish interviews, the Emancipatory discourse is strong and the Policy discourse is weak. The results show that different national contexts produce variations in sociology’s internal dynamics.

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Davis, Edward Rock, and Rachel Wilson. "“Not so globalised”: contrasting media discourses on education and competitiveness in four countries." Journal of Asia Business Studies 13, no. 1 (January 7, 2019): 155–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jabs-08-2016-0108.

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PurposeThis paper aims to analyse contrasting discourses on education and competitiveness from four countries to show the different national values that are a key driver in economic development.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses content analysis to compare and contrast the newspaper discourse surrounding the OECD Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) in four countries with above OECD average performance: Japan and South Korea (improving performance) and Australia and Finland (declining performance). PISA has attracted much government and public attention because it reflects education and the economic value of that education.FindingsThere are key contrasts in the discourses of the four countries. Despite shifts to globalised perspectives on education, strong national and cultural differences remain. Educational competitiveness and economic competitiveness are strong discourses in Japan and South Korea, while in Australia and Finland, the focus is on educational competitiveness. The media in Finland has few references to economic competitiveness and it does not feature in Australia. The discourse themes on PISA from 2001 to 2015 are presented with trends in educational attainment and shifting national perspectives on education.Research limitations/implicationsAnalysis is limited to the top two circulation newspapers in English language in each country over 2001 to 2015. These newspapers in Finland, Japan and South Korea include translated content from local language papers.Originality/valueThe paper provides longitudinal perspectives to understand the contrasting societal values placed on education and how these relate to perspectives on competitiveness. This media evidence on national discourses can inform education policy orientations in the four countries examined.

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ALLAN, ELIZABETH. "Constructing Women's Status: Policy Discourses of University Women's Commission Reports." Harvard Educational Review 73, no. 1 (April 1, 2003): 44–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/haer.73.1.f61t41j83025vwh7.

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In this article, Elizabeth J. Allan explores how discourses embedded in university women's commission reports position women as victims, outsiders to the structure and culture of the institution, and as being in need of professional development. Using policy discourse analysis, Allan examines discourses generated by university women's commissions, which are policy-focused groups advocating for gender equity in higher education. Allan analyzes the text of twenty-one commission reports issued at four research universities from 1971 to 1996, and illustrates how dominant discourses of femininity, access, and professionalism contribute to constructing women's status in complex ways and may have the unintended consequence of undermining the achievement of gender equity. She also explores how a caregiving discourse is drawn on and challenges institutional norms of the academic workplace. Allan provides four suggestions for improving university women's commissions, including promoting awareness of policy as discourse; analyzing frameworks and assumptions of policy reports; examining implications of policy recommendations; and looking at how policy discourses construct images of women.

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Khan, Abrahim H. "Four Edifying Discourses (1843): A Dimensional Analysis." Tópicos, Revista de Filosofía 5, no. 1 (November 28, 2013): 235. http://dx.doi.org/10.21555/top.v5i1.523.

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El tercer volumen de la obra estética de Kierkegaard publicada en 1843 reúne cuatro discursos que forman el objeto de estudio de este análisis. La intención es presentar una imagen del pensamiento religioso de Kierkegaard, mostrar la dimensiones temáticas de este tercer volumen, a la par de clarificar las interrelaciones de los discursos y ofrecer una herramienta que subraya las ideas principales por medio del listado de vocabulario de alta frecuencia de ocurrencias. Las preguntas principales que se atienden en este trabajo son: ¿cuáles son las sesenta principales palabras utilizadas en el tercer volumen de los discursos de 1843? ¿cuáles son las tres dimensiones textuales primarias de este volumen? y ¿cuál es el núcleo o en qué se enfoca este volumen? El método que se utiliza en este análisis consiste en la construcción de una versión de los discursos legible para una máquina sobre la cual se aplican técnicas de análisis computacional que a partir de una lista de sesenta palabras anormalmente frecuentes en los cuatro discursos del tercer volumen genera una matriz que arroja porcentajes y estadísticas que ayudan al investigador a reconstruir el núcleo de la obra analizada, así como a identificar los argumentos principales y los puntos en común que el mapeo arroja de la comparación de las partes del texto.

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Kochubeynyk, O. "Producing of Anomy: Four Discourses of Identity." Psychological Sciences: issues and achievements 1-2, no. 13-14 (December 26, 2019): 193–211. http://dx.doi.org/10.33120/psia.issue-13-14.2019.ok9.

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Aggarwal, N. K. "Diagnostic reasoning in Nizami 'Aruzi's Four Discourses." Medical Humanities 36, no. 2 (October 30, 2010): 88–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jmh.2010.004572.

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Kostera, Monika, and Andrzej K. Kozminski. "Four Theatres: Moral Discourses in Polish Management." Management Learning 32, no. 3 (September 2001): 321–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350507601323003.

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Christiansen, Erling A. N. "Negative externalities of food production: discourses on the contested Norwegian aquaculture industry." Journal of Political Ecology 20, no. 1 (December 1, 2013): 180. http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/v20i1.21747.

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The concern of this article is the language and ontology of negative externalities. Four discourses on the financially successful industry of salmon farming in Norway are critically analyzed and deconstructed. The discourses are: "high turnover discourse", "technology optimism discourse", "first nature discourse" and "traditionalist discourse". Groups defending various discourses differ in their interpretations of a) human/nature relations i.e. either ecocentric, anthropocentric or biocentric, and b) in their respective approach to either a transformative, adaptive or reactive logic. By linking interpretations, concepts and logic inherent to these discourses, it is possible to make conclusions on their degree of coherency. The leading discourses are maintained in language through strategic framing and overdetermination. These linguistic mechanisms are revealed in the discursive application of the concepts of sustainability and wild fish. Rather than to surrender to relativism, the article recommends integration of realism and deconstruction.Key words: Atlantic salmon farming, food production, critical discourse analysis, negative externalities, soft constructionism, parsimony, political ecology, sustainability.

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Mitchell, Les. "Animals and the Discourse of Farming in Southern Africa." Society & Animals 14, no. 1 (2006): 39–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853006776137122.

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AbstractThis paper looks at discourses related to animal farming in a popular South African farming magazine. The paper analyzes four ar ticles using a form of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Despite varying widely in content and style, all articles draw from the discourses of production and science; two also show a minor discourse of achievement. With further work, it is possible to discern a fourth, deeply embedded discourse: that of enslavement. This also was present in all the articles. These discourses objectify nonhuman animals and support a world-view of teleological anthropocentrism that fits well with present capitalist practices.

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Van Roy, Kaatje, Anne Marché-Paillé, Filip Geerardyn, and Stijn Vanheule. "Reading Balint group work through Lacan’s theory of the four discourses." Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 21, no. 4 (February 5, 2016): 441–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459315628041.

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In Balint groups, (para)medical professionals explore difficult interactions with patients by means of case presentations and discussions. As the process of Balint group work is not well understood, this article investigates Balint group meetings by making use of Lacan’s theory of the four discourses. Five Balint group case presentations and their subsequent group discussion were studied, resulting in the observation of five crucial aspects of Balint group work. First, Balint group participants brought puzzlement to the group, which is indicative of the structural impossibility Lacan situates at the basis of all discourse (1). As for the group discussion, we emphasize ‘hysterization’ as a crucial process in Balint group work (2), the supporting role of the discourse of the analyst (3) and the centrality of discourse interactions (4). Finally, the potential transformation of the initial puzzlement is discussed (5). We conclude by putting forth the uniqueness of Balint group work as well as the potential usefulness of our analysis as a framework for Balint group leaders and professionals in charge of continuing medical education.

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Lawrie, Michelle. "Charlie Hebdo Attack and Discourses of Muslims in British and Danish Newspapers: A cross-cultural critical discourse analysis of four newspapers." Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network 12, no. 1 (August 31, 2019): 23–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.31165/nk.2019.121.546.

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A perceived shift to the right when representing Muslims in the press in Europe has beenevident in recent years. Events such as 9/11, the July 2005 London bombings, broaderEuropean discussions and mainstreaming of populist discourses have marked a significant shiftin the media focusing on Muslims living in Europe. This paper outlines the discourses used to represent Muslims, via conducting multimodalcritical discourse analysis. The paper focuses on the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack andcross-culturally compares four newspapers in two countries – the UK and Denmark. Resultsindicate a recontextualisation of the terrorist attack situating the threat within each country,with newspapers positioned as ‘left’ utilising the same framing and discourses of right leaningnewspapers. This situated threat is demonstrated through discourses framing both countries incontrast to Muslim ‘values’. Furthermore, both countries focus on utilising Muslim ‘voices’who are part of a Star System that are critical of Muslim communities.

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Hansen, Lars Kristian, and Pernille Kræmmergard. "Discourses and Theoretical Assumptions in IT Project Portfolio Management." International Journal of Information Technology Project Management 5, no. 3 (July 2014): 39–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijitpm.2014070103.

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These years increasing interest is put on IT project portfolio management (IT PPM). Considering IT PPM an interdisciplinary practice, this paper conducts a concept-based literature review of relevant articles across various research disciplines. It finds and classifies a stock of 107 relevant articles into four scientific discourses: the normative, the interpretive, the critical, and the dialogical discourses, as formulated by Deetz (1996). It finds that the normative discourse dominates the IT PPM literature, and few contributions represent the three remaining discourses, which unjustifiably leaves out issues that research could and most probably should investigate. In order to highlight research potentials, limitations, and underlying assumptions of each discourse, this paper develops four IT PPM metaphors. Its metaphors can be used by practitioners to articulate and discuss underlying and conflicting assumptions in IT PPM, serving as a basis for adjusting organizations' IT PPM practices.

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Morinière, Lezlie C. Erway, and Mohammed Hamza. "Environment and Mobility: A View from Four Discourses." AMBIO 41, no. 8 (August 28, 2012): 795–807. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-012-0333-y.

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Hicks, Deborah A. "Individual and Social Meanings in the Classroom: Narrative Discourse as a Boundary Phenomenon." Journal of Narrative and Life History 4, no. 3 (January 1, 1994): 215–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/jnlh.4.3.03ind.

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Abstract This article explores narrative discourse in the classroom as individual and social meaning construction. Drawing largely on the work of Bakhtin—in particular, his theory of consciousness as a dialogic "boundary phenomenon"—the article positions classroom narrative discourses as co-constructions of meaning. The primary goal of the article is methodological in that it articulates how one might go about studying narratives as neither "inside" the individual nor "out there" in culture. A set of focusing questions are developed for exploring narratives in the classroom. Four focusing questions explore such aspects of narrative discourses as the sociocognitive history of activity settings, the moment-to-moment enactment of meaning, the individual child's reconstruction of meaning (his or her "internalization" of discourses), and developmental changes that occur in how children construct meaning from within textual contexts. These four questions are then applied to a case study of one child's classroom narrative discourses. This study of one first-grader serves as an exemplar of how such overlapping forms of textual inquiry could be applied to a developmental study of children's classroom discourse and learning. Last, issues of a societal-ethical nature are discussed as an important dimension of the theoretical and methodological positioning of narrative as a boundary phenomenon. (Classroom Discourse; Education)

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CLÉMENT, JÉRÉMIE. "THE “DISCOURSE OF NEOLIBERALISM” AS A NEW READING OF THE CAPITALIST’S DISCOURSE." Ágora: Estudos em Teoria Psicanalítica 22, no. 3 (December 2019): 264–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1809-44142019003001.

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ABSTRACT: In this article we aim at updating the status of the capitalist’s discourse as first introduced by Jacques Lacan in the early 1970s, in light of the permeating trend of neoliberalism towards unlimited extension in our present-day societies. After examining the written logic of discourses proposed by Jacques Lacan, we will present the four discourses and their latest corollary: the capitalist’s discourse. We will then submit and discuss the syntagm of “discourse of neoliberalism”, by comparing it as a variant of the capitalist’s discourse. Finally, we will present neoliberalism as a reinforced Master’s discourse, so as to call it the “hypermodern Master’s discourse”.

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Rajandran, Kumaran. "Coercive, mimetic and normative: Interdiscursivity in Malaysian CSR reports." Discourse & Communication 12, no. 4 (March 12, 2018): 424–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481318757779.

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Malaysian corporations have to disclose corporate social responsibility (CSR), and a typical genre for disclosure is CSR reports. These reports incorporate other discourses which indicate the presence of interdiscursivity. The article examines interdiscursivity in Malaysian CSR reports. It selects the CSR reports of 10 major corporations and pursues an interdiscursive analysis which involves four sequential stages. CSR reports contain discourses of public relations, sustainability, strategic management, compliance and financial accounting. Although the discourses are often multisemiotic, language maintains primacy in content, while image tends to exemplify or simplify content. These discourses constitute an interdiscursive profile, and it has central and auxiliary discourses. The central discourse is public relations discourse, and it promotes corporations helping and not harming society. The auxiliary discourses are sustainability, strategic management, compliance and financial accounting discourses, and these discourses mitigate the promotional focus. Interdiscursivity enables the primarily promotional CSR reports to not seem overtly promotional. The choice of discourses is probably influenced by coercive, mimetic and normative reasons. These discourses enhance the reliability of CSR reports because their disclosure is anchored to various CSR aspects, international or reporting practices and professional domains. Interdiscursivity helps to build stakeholders’ confidence in disclosure and, therefore, in corporations. It joins other functions in CSR reports to convey corporations as agents of positive social change. The article also probes the relationship between interdiscursivity and intertextuality and advances a matrix of intertextual–interdiscursive use.

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Vesnic-Alujevic, Lucia. "Communicating with voters by blogs? Campaigning for the 2009 European Parliament elections." Discourse & Communication 5, no. 4 (November 2011): 413–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481311418098.

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Following the rise in use of online communication in electoral campaigns throughout the world, this article deals with the use of blogs by politicians in Europe. Through the approach of Critical Discourse Analysis, it analyzes blog posts written by the European Parliament incumbents running for the European Parliament elections in 2009, from four different EU states and ideological backgrounds, and at the same time the four largest political groups in the European Parliament. The purpose of the study is to reveal the campaign strategy and dominant discourses through the analysis of the format, style and appeals. The findings reveal the differences in discourses between four political blogs, which result from the different use of language and appeals.

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Young Hai Mok. "Lacan’s Four Discourses theory and it’s Application to Education." Korean Journal of Philosophy of Education 38, no. 2 (June 2016): 73–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.15754/jkpe.2016.38.2.004.

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Bar-On, Tamir. "‘Islamofascism’: Four Competing Discourses on the Islamism-Fascism Comparison." Fascism 7, no. 2 (October 17, 2018): 241–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22116257-00702005.

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With the dramatic rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, we witnessed the revival of the Islamism-fascism comparison. This paper begins with a short history of the Islamism-fascism comparison. It then argues that both Islamism and fascism are coherent political ideologies. The author proposes a four-fold typology of different discourses in respect of the Islamism-fascism comparison, which are called ‘Thou shall not compare’, ‘Islamofascism’, ‘Islamofascism as epithet’, and ‘Dare to compare’. It’s concluded that we should compare Islamism and fascism, but that the two ideologies are distinctive, totalitarian ideologies. Clerical fascism is the closest ideologically to Islamism, although it is also a distinctive political ideology.

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Houtman, Coral. "Lacan's theory of the four discourses andthe sixth sense." Journal for Cultural Research 7, no. 3 (July 2003): 277–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1479758032000135960.

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Lei, Yue, and Zhang Yi. "RESEARCHES ON APPLICATIONS OF NOMINALIZATION IN DIFFERENT DISCOURSES." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 7, no. 4 (April 30, 2019): 97–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v7.i4.2019.879.

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As an important grammatical resource, nominalization has drawn many scholars’ attention, in which the most representative one is Halliday’s research on nominalization, and the breakthrough of his study is chiefly reflected in the researches about scientific discourses. Inspired by Halliday, many researchers have carried out various empirical researches on nominalization in different discourses. This study reviewed four types of empirical studies on nominalization, which are nominalization in academic discourse, nominalization in non-academic discourse, comparison of nominalization in different discourses and translation of nominalization. Through reviewing these studies, limitations concerning research methodology, research materials and analysis procedures are discussed. Finally, the analysis suggests that researchers should take all types of nominalizations into consideration and further elaborate their functions in different discourses, moreover, researches should focus more on practical significance of the study in the future and try to offer learners more advice on the use of nominalization and construction of academic writing.

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Varon, Ari. "Islam, the State, and the Law in Europe." Journal of Law, Religion and State 2, no. 1 (2013): 41–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22124810-00201003.

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The article presents the intricacies of an intra-Islamic debate within Europe today discussing multiple Islamic perspectives of religion, the state and the law. Analyzing the ideas of four contemporary European Muslim intellectuals the article reveals variations on how Muslims in Europe view the concept of secularism, the role of the state and the guidelines of Islamic religious practice. Through a comparative discourse analysis the article identities four distinct Islamic discourses that are compared and contrasted with each other and juxtaposed with European theory about religion, the state and the law. As Muslims in Europe gradually overcome social cleavages and ethnic differences they at times challenge the secular nature and religious neutrality of Europe’s religious, cultural and humanist inheritance. Understanding the distinctions between the Islamic discourses elaborates the trends and ramifications the political mobilization Muslims living in Europe might have on the status quo definitions of European society; some Islamic discourses represent a direct confrontation to the construct secular identity; others suggest full integration into European society. All four are present in Europe today. Recognizing the differences between the Islamic discourses can rearrange the principles in which Europe perceives Islam while enlightening the politically sensitive and complex subject relating to the formation of an Islamic European identity.

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Doerr, Neriko Musha. "Discourses of volunteer/service work and their discontents: Border crossing, construction of hierarchy, and paying dues." Education, Citizenship and Social Justice 12, no. 3 (December 25, 2016): 264–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1746197916684565.

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This article examines four discourses of volunteer/service work—charity, leisure, citizenship, and border crossing—in terms of how they construct relationships between those who serve and those who are served. Specifically, it analyzes the discourse of border crossing, which assumes White middle-class students crossing a border to work in underprivileged minority communities. Reanalyzing three case studies that show meaningful service work done without crossing borders, this article argues that the discourse reinforces the stereotype of those who serve and those served and privileges White middle-class people’s work while erasing others’. By arguing that all four discourses reproduce hierarchical relationships between those who serve and those served, this article also suggests a new discourse—of paying dues—that frames all of us as participating in systems that create unequal distribution of resources and thus as responsible for ameliorating these systems’ effects through volunteer/service work and ultimately stopping their reproduction.

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Goldfrank, David. "Iosif “Syllogistikos”." Canadian-American Slavic Studies 54, no. 1-3 (August 13, 2020): 99–133. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/22102396-05401007.

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Abstract Iosif Volotskii’s practical and rhetorical mastery of logic was a major factor in its pedagogical and polemical effectiveness. This logic pervades his Prosvetitel’ (Book against the Novgorod Heretics) in the structure of each discourse, grouping of the discourses, ordering of subjects and themes within and among the discourses, hypothetical heretical objections and Orthodox refutations, sequencing of proof texts, application of syllogistic literary devices, explicit epistemological principles, emphasis on and variety of proofs, enthymematic presentation of both the major heretical doctrines and the Orthodox correctives, and overall syllogistic interconnectedness. The numerous formal refutations in Discourse 11 partially explains its division into four chapters, while the greater unity of discourse structure of the theological Discourses 1–11, in contrast to the more prosecutorial Discourses 12–16, speaks in favor of the chronological primacy of the brief redaction. The positive theology and ethics are presented as a coherent whole, as is the binary opposition of legitimate ruler, pastor or pious layman vs. the tyrant, “wolf,” or lay heretic. The reliability of Prosvetitel’ as a source for dissidence remains questionable, but its pedagogical utility for Orthodox Muscovites is indisputable.

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Keisu, Britt-Inger, Ann Öhman, and Birgit Enberg. "What Is a Good Workplace? Tracing the Logics of NPM among Managers and Professionals in Swedish Elderly Care." Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies 6, no. 1 (March 1, 2016): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.19154/njwls.v6i1.4884.

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Neoliberal policies such as new public management (NPM) have been pivotal to the Swedish elderly care system for two decades. This article explores the discourses of NPM and work by focusing on how a good workplace is represented by professionals and managers in Swedish elderly care. Using qualitative interviews with 31 managers, nurses, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists at nine workplaces, we identified four competing meanings (‘storylines’) of how a good workplace is constructed among the interviewees within an ongoing struggle between two discourses. Three storylines, i.e., striving to achieve the mission, a desire to work in elderly care, and striving for good working relationships, are linked to the neoliberal discourse of organizational effectiveness. In contrast, the fourth storyline, support and better working conditions, is related to a welfare-state discourse of traditional labor relations with strong historical roots. Four subject positions available to the managers and professionals were identified: the bureaucrat, the passionate, the professional, and the critic. We conclude that NPM is translated on top of existing discourses, such as those of traditional labor relations, care ideals, and practices, that are already established in elderly care workplaces and that counteract the new policy.

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Russell, Curtis. "Four Hairsprays, one Baltimore: The city in trans-medial adaptation." Studies in Musical Theatre 12, no. 3 (December 1, 2018): 367–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/smt.12.3.367_1.

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By comparing John Waters’ 1988 film Hairspray with its adaptations narratologically, previous studies of the film have treated the process of adaptation as a zero-sum game that diminishes the political stakes with each iteration. With this article, I suggest that generic tools such as mise-en-scène and choreography have the capacity to transform discourses instead of merely supplanting them. To better understand the discursive spaces opened up by the trans-medial adaptation process, I read the opening scene of Waters’ film and its three subsequent adaptations as a discourse of the city, following Annette Insdorf’s assertion that a narrative’s first moments reflect significant thematic and aesthetic moves on the part of its creators.

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Соколов and Andrey Sokolov. "ANTI-CRISIS PROGRAMS IN THE DISCOURSE OF RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARY POLITICAL PARTIES." Central Russian Journal of Social Sciences 10, no. 5 (October 20, 2015): 68–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/14296.

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In the article the display of political discourses of Russian parliamentary political parties in economic crisis of 2014 is examined. The translation of anti-crisis programs through the party crisis discourse is studied. On the basis of the comparative analysis of the data of official websites of four Russian parliamentary political parties, conclusions about similarities and differences in critical discourses of parties are drawn, especially public presentation of anti-crisis programs in 2008 - 2012. Special attention is paid to the fact that during the economic crisis new Russian parliamentary political parties formed certain anti-crisis suggestions and made an effort to translate these suggestions through its crisis discourse.

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Coy, Patrick G., Lynne M. Woehrle, and Gregory M. Maney. "A Typology of Oppositional Knowledge: Democracy and the U.S. Peace Movement." Sociological Research Online 13, no. 4 (July 2008): 82–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.1739.

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Institutionally privileged political discourses not only legitimate the policy agendas of power-holders, but also de-legitimate dissent. Oppositional discourses are social movement responses to these cultural obstacles to mass mobilisation. Integrating discourse analysis and framing theory, we argue that the production of oppositional knowledge constitutes a long-term, counter-hegemonic project that connects macro-level discourses with meso and micro-level efforts at political persuasion, mobilisation, and change. Drawing examples from statements issued by U.S. peace movement organisations (PMOs) over fifteen years, we map the production of oppositional discourses across five conflict periods. Using qualitative data analysis and both inductive and deductive theorising, we develop a typology of the U.S. peace movement's discourses on democracy. We show that four forms of oppositional knowledge were generated by PMOs to facilitate policy dialogue and accountability. Through their statements, peace movement organisations crafted a shared conception of democracy that is antithetical to military intervention abroad and political repression at home.

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Przybysz-Polakowska, Kinga. "Polish Catholic Magazines and Bioethical Dilemmas: A Critical Discourse Analysis." Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture 9, no. 3 (December 10, 2020): 368–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21659214-bja10027.

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Abstract This article presents a cad-based analysis of Polish Catholic newspaper discourse regarding bioethical dilemmas. The study corpus consists of materials published by four weekly magazines – Gość Niedzielny, Niedziela, Przewodnik Katolicki, and Tygodnik Powszechny – between 2005 and 2015. The author took into consideration articles that were fully devoted to abortion, in vitro fertilization, or euthanasia. The research methodology was based on critical discourse analysis and delivered both quantitative and qualitative results. The findings suggest that even though all magazines touched on bioethical dilemmas and conjured up similar topics, their discourses were different. It transpired that the key variable was the magazines’ affiliations. Titles directly connected to the Catholic Church (Gość Niedzielny, Niedziela, Przewodnik katolicki) produced different discourses than Tygodnik Powszechny, which has no official bonds with the Catholic Church. Given the structure of the discourses, the author suggests division into two categories: inward-oriented and outward-oriented.

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Angotti-Neto, Hélio, Andreia Bosi, and Angela Regina Binda da Silva Jesus. "The Four Aristotelian Discourses in Medicine: Educational Tools for Physicians." Journal Biomedical and Biopharmaceutical Research 11, no. 2 (December 2014): 151–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.19277/bbr.11.2.86.

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Chung, Sung Ho. "Reading Korean Public Administration: An Application of Lacanian Four Discourses." International Journal of Public Administration 30, no. 12-14 (November 9, 2007): 1343–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900690701229509.

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Death, Carl. "Four discourses of the green economy in the global South." Third World Quarterly 36, no. 12 (December 2, 2015): 2207–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1068110.

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Desmond, John. "Figuring knowledge and desire in critical marketing: Lacan's four discourses." Journal of Marketing Management 25, no. 7-8 (September 14, 2009): 849–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1362/026725709x471695.

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Cid, Beatriz, Eduardo Antonio Letelier Araya, Pablo Saravia, Julien Vanhulst, Nelson Carroza, and Daniel Sandoval. "Mapping social economy discourses in Chile." International Journal of Social Economics 47, no. 1 (October 29, 2019): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijse-12-2018-0672.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the social economy discourses in four regions of Chile, characterized by their internal economic heterogeneity. Design/methodology/approach Using an intentional sample, semi-structured interviews were applied to 45 key informants from the public sector, universities, consultant enterprises, cooperatives and civil society organizations. Through a content analysis, thematic axes were identified that allowed to characterize and to recognize the narratives that key informants held about their initiatives, experiences or ventures. Findings The results allow us to understand the diversity of discourses and practices about alternative economies, being able to organize them from two axes: the tension between molar and molecular subjectivities; and the tension between reform and transformation (which refers to a transformative type of institutional and socio-material change). These axes propose an interpretative framework that integrates a diversity of distinctions and/or polarities and problematizes the homogeneity of formal economic discourse. Research limitations/implications The discourses analyzed by this paper offers representativeness by saturation. It do not allow to ponder for sure the relative presence of each of these discourses in the field of economic diversity. The analysis of what type of actors sustain each type of discourse remains pending. Social implications The high discourse heterogeneity makes it possible to foresee major difficulties in terms of political articulation and the visibility of various alternative economic experiences, initiatives or ventures as part of a social transformation movement. Originality/value Previous studies developed in Latin America about social and solidarity economy have been focused in objective dimensions as the volume of incomes, expenditures or jobs. This is the first study aimed at characterizing the subjective field of discourse held by different actors who recognize themselves as part of an alternative economy movement.

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Schulze, Reinhard. "Islamofascism: Four Avenues to the Use of an Epithet." DIE WELT DES ISLAMS 52, no. 3-4 (2012): 290–330. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700607-201200a3.

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In this paper I want to reconstruct the genealogy of relating Islam to fascism and fascism to Islam by assembling evidence from Western discourses. Such a reconstruction of course suffers from the fact that it has to draw a picture based solely on a collection of idiographic interpretations. The result is more a mosaic than a coherent narrative. My purpose is not to discuss again the meaning of the current ideological discourse on Islamofascism and the use of Fascism as an epithet for Islamism or even for Islam.1 Nor do I want to examine the fallibility of identifying certain Islamic political traditions as “fascist” or to explore the historical interaction between Islamic political discourses and Fascism from the 1920s to the 1940s. My intention is to study the mechanism and meaning of relating Fascism to Islam and Islam to Fascism. Starting with a look at the semantic expressing this relation, I will continue by examining the scope of the current usage in the Western public. Next I will investigate the general application of Islam as an epithet for secular political traditions and cultures since the early 19th century. Finally, I will concentrate on the use of Islam as an epithet for Fascism and Nazism in the 1930s and 1940s. I will conclude with some observations on current practice, which fuses and equates the epithetical use of Islam and Fascism. My main thesis is that Islam has been instrumental in splitting off ideological and cultural traditions considered adversarial from one’s own social, political, or cultural context. The current usage of Islamofascism reverses this mechanism, as now fascism has become instrumental in splitting off Islam from the Western context.

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Tijani, O. Ishaq. "Feminism and Postmodernism in Kuwaiti Women’s Fiction: Four Novels by Fawziyya S. al-Sālim." Open Cultural Studies 2, no. 1 (May 1, 2018): 61–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2018-0007.

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Abstract This article comparatively examines the first four novels of Fawziyya Shuwaysh al-Sālim (b. 1949): al-Shams madhbūḥa wa-l-layl maḥbūs (1997), al-Nuwākhidha (1998), Muzūn (2000), Ḥajar ʿalā ḥajar (2003). I argue that these novels reflect not only the stages of the author’s career as a novelist but also of the transition of Kuwaiti women’s fiction from the conventional to the postmodern narrative technique and discourse. Al-Sālim’s first and second novels typically reproduce-albeit subversively-the dominant literary discourse and employ conventional narrative techniques. On the other hand, her millennial-third and fourth-novels signal the inception of the feminist-postmodernist novel in Kuwait; in varying degrees, both texts utilise present-day, globalised linguistic vulgarism and fragmented narrative techniques to explore feminist discourses bordering on female transcendence and self-determination.

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Pinto, Alexandra Guedes. "Discourse and manipulation – the miscegenation of genres in written press." Comunicação e Sociedade 19 (June 1, 2011): 247–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.19(2011).909.

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This paper focuses on the appearance of certain instances of “intermediategenres” in written press derived from the miscegenation of press editorials and advertisements.It analyses the case of a specific advertisement and health editorial printed inVIP – a Portuguese social magazine – in April 2010. It appeals to a theoretical frameworkfrom Discourse Analysis in order to prove the miscegenation of genres betweenthe two chosen texts. Four aspects are developed: the context and co-text of the analyzeddiscourses; the genres involved; the language and paralanguage used; the pragmaticvalues activated – locutionary, illocutionary, perlocutionary.The study aims at proving that different genres combinations formed from advertisementsand other types of discourse, especially in media discourses, are a sign of thecolonization that advertising carries on other discourses financially dependent on it.

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Larsen, Ana, and Susan Emmett. "Social equity in higher education: a wicked problem exacerbated by multiple discourses." Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning 23, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 191–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.5456/wpll.23.1.191.

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Social equity in higher education has been a priority for universities and policy makers throughout Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations for more than a decade. Limited improvement is seen among students in under-represented groups which remains a concern and for this reason social equity in higher education is presented as a wicked problem. This article will outline the steady massification of higher education where elitist discourses were largely abandoned, while social equity discourses flourished. The discussion will include key documents that have wielded great influence on discourse including The Bradley Review, Performance-Based Funding (PBF) and the Job-Ready Graduates legislation. After illuminating the Australian political context, this article will define four social equity discourses currently distinguishable in higher education literature: meritocratic, economist, social justice and human potential. Interrogation of these discourses will reveal complexity and divergence that contributes to the wicked nature of improving social equity in higher education.

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Li, Xiaqing. "Analysis of Discourse from Perspective of Systemic Functional Grammar." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 9, no. 8 (August 1, 2019): 1049. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0908.25.

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Firstly the author introduces Systemic Functional Grammar in this paper, including the levels of language and their realization relationships, the systems of the three metafunctions and their submetafunctions, as well as the two levels of discourse analysis(DA). Then being based on different aspects of the systemic functional grammar, this paper analyzes the four discourses. Person system, mood and modality system, cohesion system in systemic function grammar are used in analysis of the first discourse “heal the world” which reveals some features of discourse of song. Understanding these characteristics can deepen understanding of the listener to the discourse of English song so as to improve the listener's ability to appreciate the song. When analyzing the other three discourses, the author uses the “context-text-commentary” method. Elaborate applicability of this linguistic theory to DA is the purpose. Finally, concluding that analysis of discourse with the systemic functional grammar analysis is not only a good way, but also it has very important significance.

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Holland, Kathryn J., and Nicole Bedera. "“Call for Help Immediately”: A Discourse Analysis of Resident Assistants’ Responses to Sexual Assault Disclosures." Violence Against Women 26, no. 11 (July 27, 2019): 1383–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801219863879.

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Formal support providers can play a critical role in sexual assault survivors’ well-being (e.g., providing resource referrals). In a university setting, resident assistants (RAs) are key support providers with a unique relationship to survivors based on their dual roles as help-provider and peer. We examined 305 RAs’ responses to student sexual assault disclosure scenarios. Employing a critical discourse analysis, we identified four discourses used by RAs in their discussion of resources: controlling, gatekeeping, minimizing, and empowering. Due to power dynamics between RAs and residents, we conclude that empowering discourses would facilitate survivors’ access to other resources (e.g., sexual assault center).

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Levisen, Carsten. "Pæn, flot, dejlig, and lækker." International Journal of Language and Culture 8, no. 1 (June 7, 2021): 14–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ijolc.00033.lev.

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Abstract This paper examines the Danish language of aesthetics from the perspective of four untranslatable adjectives: pæn, flot, dejlig, and lækker. These words are frequent and salient in everyday discourses, and as such they shed light on Danish “folk” conceptions. From the perspective of Lexical Anthropology and NSM Semantics, each of the words are explored and explicated in order to shed light on the ways in which Danish discourse organize positive aesthetic experiences. Sensitive to polysemy, and the variety of lexicogrammatical frames in which the words occur, the paper provides a high-resolution analyses of the “something ADJ frame” which enables discourses of design, food, and art. Based on lexical semantic evidence, the paper locates two themes in Danish discourse: “aesthetic normality” and “ordinary hedonism” which seem to act as cognitive axes around which discourses revolve. The paper argues that words hold the key to understanding the diversity of aesthetic cultures, and that untranslatables in particular, allow for a deep emic understanding of how local configurations of seeing, feeling, touching, and thinking are constituted.

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Du Preez, Petro, and Shan Simmonds. "Higher Degree Committee Members’ Perceptions of Quality Assurance of Doctoral Education: A South African Perspective." International Journal of Doctoral Studies 11 (2016): 341–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/3586.

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In South Africa four key policy discourses underpin doctoral education: growth, capacity, efficiency, and quality discourses. This article contributes to the discourse on quality by engaging with quality assurance from the perspective of the decision makers and implementers of macro policy (national), meso (institutional), and micro (faculty/departmental) levels. We explore the perceptions that members of higher degree committees in the field of Education have of the quality assurance of doctoral education. Our data are drawn from a national survey questionnaire completed by these respondents at all public South African institutions that offer a doctorate in Education. The insights gained reside within four categories: positionality, policy, programmes, and people (stakeholders). Thereafter, we problematised the main results using academic freedom in a mode 3 knowledge production environment as a lens, which revealed thought provoking directions for future research about doctoral education.

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Graham, Ruth, Marilyn Owens, Helena Priest, and Stephanie Hutton. "Constructions of Decision Making for Risk-Reducing Mastectomy." Qualitative Health Research 28, no. 10 (July 17, 2018): 1595–609. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732318785372.

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This research article explores constructions of the decision-making process for risk-reducing mastectomy and considers the consequent role and responsibility of clinical psychologists. Using a Foucauldian discourse analysis approach, three online newspaper articles, five online forums, and four semi-structured interviews were analyzed. Seven discursive constructions are identified and discussed within three broader discourses of mental illness, risk, and embodied selves. Primary conclusions highlight the role for clinical psychologists and health professionals to incorporate the multiple social and political factors involved in discourses that shape decision making. The role of power is critically considered and there is a need for further analysis of “talk” among health professionals.

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Ekendahl, Mats. "Limits of Evidence – the Case of Psychosocial Interventions in a Swedish Review of Maintenance Treatment Research." Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 26, no. 4 (August 2009): 399–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/145507250902600405.

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In Sweden, maintenance treatment (MT) with methadone has been a controversial exception to drug-free treatment. However, efficacy, prescription control and the provision of simultaneous psychosocial treatment (PST) have provided MT with political legitimacy. This view, notably stressing that PST is an important complement to medication, was presented in central Swedish policy documents that paved the way for less strict MT regulations in 2005. Aim The present study aims to analyse how the various stakeholders involved in this policy process described and evaluated the efficacy and legitimacy of PST within the framework of the MT discussion. Data & Method The data consists of a document authored by a state agency (a preliminary review of MT research) and various stakeholders' written commentaries on it. different representations of PST (so-called constructions) were coded thematically and analysed using discourse analytical concepts. Results The results show that stakeholders' constructions of PST draw on different discourses related to the governance of Swedish opiate addiction treatment. Four constructions were identified, PST as: “mere complement” (narrow empirical discourse); “underrated intervention” (practitioner discourse); “preferred intervention” (ideological discourse) and “complex intervention” (antireductionist discourse). The study illustrates how the narrow empirical discourse's construction of PST as a mere complement was challenged by the three other discourses, but shows that the former remained the dominant influence on subsequent MT regulations. It also highlights that references to beliefs and alleged facts are intertwined in stakeholders' rhetorical efforts to assign meaning to PST. This suggests that science and ideology are interrelated in policy discussions on opiate addiction treatment, and that firm conclusions about the value of help interventions rely as much on scientific evidence as on strategic argumentation.

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Kim, Shin-Young. "An Analysis of Catholicism’s Environmental Discourses Concerning the Four Major Rivers Project : Based on a Critical Discourse Analysis." Journal of Social Science 26, no. 1 (January 31, 2015): 319. http://dx.doi.org/10.16881/jss.2015.01.26.1.319.

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