What is Discourse

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Arguments, opinions and statements that are represented as facts (‘truths’) supported by definitions, theories and contentions that are part of a particular discipline. This term was developed by the social theorist Michel Foucault and is often used to provide a deeper understanding of the power relations that often underpin representation of knowledge and the imposition thereof. Learn more in: Creating an Analytical Lens for Understanding Digital Networks in Urban South Africa

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The use of words to exchange thoughts and ideas. Learn more in: Ensuring Presence in Online Learning Environments

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Written or spoken communication or debate. Learn more in: Developing the EFL Learners' Interdisciplinary Thinking Through Teaching Literature

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Discussion through talk or text. Learn more in: Holding Out for a Hero: Leadership Discourse in College and University Presidential Job Postings in a 20-Year Span

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A system of socially-patterned language practices; discourses continually shape and are shaped by culture, are influential in forming personal identities, and are used as resources as people work within, across, or against cultures. Learn more in: Parawork

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Any form of dialogue that occurs between two or more people. Learn more in: E-Relationships: Using Computer-Mediated Discourse Analysis to Build Ethics of Care in Digital Spaces

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Communication of thought through a verbal exchange of ideas in discussion and/or debate. Learn more in: Online Instructional Strategies for Enhancing Teachers' TPACK: Experiences, Discourse, and Critical Reflection

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All manner of text and talk than serve to create reality for society. Learn more in: Developing Critical Dispositions in Teacher Education Programs

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Discourse is the organized use of language over sentences in linguistics (Mutlu, 1998). Learn more in: Breaking the Narrative on Global Fault Lines

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Conceptual generalization of conversation within each modality and context of communication. Learn more in: Cognitive Aspects of Foreign Language Professional Discourse Teaching While Realizing Projects

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Language which has been produced as a result of an act of communication, and which is unified and meaningful. Learn more in: From Linguistic Determinism to Technological Determinism

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Discourse refers to language use in speech and writing. Critical Discourse Analysis considers that there is a dialectical relationship between a particular discursive event and the situation which frames it: the discursive event is not only shaped by the situation, but it also shapes the situation. Learn more in: "Pathfinding" Discourses of Self in Social Network Sites

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Communication in speech or writing. Learn more in: Discursive leadership: Developing a Scale to Evaluate Followers' Perceptions of Discourse in First-Time Leadership

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A Discourse is an environment with people who are basically the same because they share the same interests, values, principles and ways of behaving. It allows learning from within through being a participating member of the Discourse. Learn more in: Quality Assurance for Teacher Education in Democratic Globalized World

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The writings and views about an issue or subject that eventually become accepted as a current and correct understanding of such an issue. A discourse tends to be a certain trend that emerges as a currently accepted conceptualisation of a certain idea or subject matter. A discourse is not static; it changes over time. Learn more in: Indigenous Knowledge Discourses in Africa: At the Intersection of Culture, Politics, and Information Science

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Discussions within a social environment, towards more fully understanding the knowledge, towards checking and double-checking one’s understanding of information within a social context. Learn more in: Teacher Presence

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Gee (1996) defined discourse as “ways of behaving, interacting, valuing, thinking believing, speaking, and often reading and writing that are accepted instantiations of particular roles (or ‘types of people’) by specific groups of people (p. viii). For Gee, there are two major forms of discourse: an individual’s primary Discourse, manner in which the individual communicates regularly; and secondary Discourses that emerge within public spheres and are tied to affinity groups. Learn more in: Cross-Cultural Affordances of Digital Storytelling: Results from Cases in the U.S.A. and Canada

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Discourse is a theory and set of methods that unpack the dynamic processes of the social construction of meaning. Learn more in: Discursive Practices and Creation of Identity Using the Mobile Phone

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Language use in oral or written communication. Computer-mediated discourse is language use in computer-based environments. Learn more in: “Attention Beneficiary…!”: Assessing Types and Features of Scam Emails

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Discourse refers to the continuity and appropriateness of the use of words during conversation. It reflects the ability of an individual to retain the theme of conversation using varied linguistic components. In persons with aphasia, loss of language should not be viewed only from a linguistic perspective pertaining to phonology, syntax, and semantics but also from a holistic view including discourse in communication. Thus, discourse should be an integral component in the assessment and treatment of persons with aphasia. Learn more in: Discourse Elicitation in Aphasia: An Indian Framework

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Written or spoken communication in a connected series of utterances or an engaged conversation. Learn more in: Applied Empathetic Instruction for Limited-Level English Learners With Weekly Grade-Level CSOs: Where to Begin Assessment and Instruction

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A sum of proposition and enunciation that creates a body of knowledge. The circulation of this discourse via media and other form of organization is called “discursive formation” in Foucault’s discourse. Learn more in: Digital Parrhesia 2.0: Moving beyond Deceptive Communications Strategies in the Digital World

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The spoken or written conversation between two or more individuals. Learn more in: Training Novice Literacy Coaches Through a Coaching Rounds Framework

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Conversation includes the process of exchanging ideas. Learn more in: Popular Culture Discourse and Representation of the Organizations' Dark Side

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Discourse (“big D”) refers to a community’s discourse as the valued ways of doing and being through guided participation that teaches them to mediate the surrounding environment using culturally given tools (Gee, 1989 AU59: The in-text citation "Gee, 1989" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ). Learn more in: Teachers as Researchers and Instructional Leaders

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The way in which an object is understood in a particular way through how it is spoken about and enacted. Discourses may be broadened to include other discourses, which may be linked in such a way that what we know and do about one is integral to our understanding of the other. A discourse gains dominance when other ways of thinking about the object are rarely considered. Learn more in: Samson and Delilah as a Discourse of Communities of Practice

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Way of speaking, way of phrasing, pronunciation. Learn more in: The Discourse of Turkish Press on 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections and the Inauguration of Donald Trump

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Procedural and structural ways of presenting knowledge to others that invites understandings of shared meanings. Learn more in: Mobile Literacies: Learning in the Mobile Age

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A form of human communication that has the characteristic of ongoing exchange. Learn more in: Development, Identity, and Game-Based Learning

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According to Gee (1989) , “an ‘identity kit’ which comes complete with the appropriate costume and instructions on how to act, talk, and often write, so as to take on a particular role that others will recognize” (p. 526). Learn more in: Teaching as Literacy: The Discourses Required for Success in the Title I School

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Ongoing interaction and participation in social practices for opened consultation and confrontation. Learn more in: Cognitive Development: The Learning Path of Community Development Practitioners

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A connected series of utterances, expressed by human actors. It contains more or less sedimented structures and is contested in its attempt to construct, reconstruct and adjust policies, and identities of its actors. Learn more in: Collective Memory After Violent Conflict: A New Framework for Analysis

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A human language coherent achievement starting from a theme, which is longitudinally developed in time. Learn more in: The Polyphonic Model of Hybrid and Collaborative Learning

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A way of talking about an issue which represents the current structures of power, dominant culture, and institutions within society. Learn more in: Reconciling Not Eating Meat and Masculinity in the Marketing Discourse for New Food Alternatives

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The act of collective communication shifting through continuous public exchanges of information and debate in texts and spoken word. Learn more in: Archaeological Interpretation: The Rhetorical Shaping of Public Memory

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discourse (“little d”) refers to language-in-use. When discussing the combination of language with other social practices (behavior, values, ways of thinking, clothes, food, customs, perspectives) within a specific group (Gee, 1989 AU60: The in-text citation "Gee, 1989" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. ). Learn more in: Teachers as Researchers and Instructional Leaders