and online gaming seeing a renaissance, I still see the core
of written discourse within the web as going strong.
The meanings
of written discourse are no longer bound, if they ever were, to the intentions of authors or the apprehensions of first readers.
The dialectical textual reality
of written discourse (parole) and linguistic code (langue) engenders the great irony of interpretation.
Not exact matches
Kierkegaard had
written and published eighteen
of these
discourses, in sets of two, three, and four (republished in one volume in 1844) before he wrote Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions and Upbuilding Discourses in Variou
discourses, in sets
of two, three, and four (republished in one volume in 1844) before he
wrote Three
Discourses on Imagined Occasions and Upbuilding Discourses in Variou
Discourses on Imagined Occasions and Upbuilding
Discourses in Variou
Discourses in Various Spirits.
Embracing an apparent relativism and anti-intellectualism, Prof. Smolin
writes: «Even if we immediately restored the preeminence
of natural rights / natural law
discourse to our national jurisprudence and politics, abortion rights activists would still find ways
of justifying the abortion right in that mode
of discourse, just as prior generations justified the enslavement
of African Americans through invoking God, the nature
of things, and the Bible.»
Lightfoot (1658) summed the need
of one seeking true understanding (and not interpretation) up well: «For, first, when all the books
of the New Testament were
written by Jews, and among Jews, and unto them; and when all the
discourses made there, were made in like manner by Jews, and to Jews, and among them; I was always fully persuaded, as
of a thing past all doubting, that that Testament could not but everywhere taste
of and retain the Jews» style, idiom, form, and rule
of speaking.»
What many folks seem to encourage jovially are rival bickering between young blooded humanists who banter about incessantly never judging their owned amorous infidelities and always trivializing the bitterness
of others»
written and even oral wordage... «I am what I am Sam» are the earmarks
of standalone infidels who dare not seek the fidelities
of devotional humanisms flavored austerities emanating with frugal
discourse above the plainness
of written and / or spoken dysenteries... «Bite the bullet» antagonists on both young sides might never find frugally endorsed concessions nor open their doors ever so gently...
Lentricchia, whose earlier work earned him the epithet «the Dirty Harry
of literary theory, is the author
of Criticism and Social Change (1983), which urges us to regard all literature as «the most devious
of rhetorical
discourses (
writing with political designs upon us all), either in opposition to or in complicity with the power in place.»
What form criticism undertakes is to get back behind the
written Gospels and their sources to the oral tradition as it circulated prior to the
writing down
of any account
of the «mighty works,» the sayings, the parables, or the
discourses of Jesus.
Texts (such as
written gospels or letters) recited or orally composed in Christian worship harkened back to the immediacy
of oral
discourse.
The fullness
of its subject matter is conveyed as a dialectical textual reality
of both the
written discourse (parole)
of the author and the linguistic code which the author has employed.
Some
of the stuff he
wrote in the Journal
of Discourses is appallingly bigoted.
Erzen
writes that «studies such as those
of Simon LeVay and Dean Hamer, which argue that a gay brain or gay genes exist, are revered as the basis for a minority identity and entrance into U.S. civil rights
discourse.»
Thankfully, many
of the commenters there are much more charitable, sounding the obvious «didn't a lot
of us
write embarrassing stuff in our college years» line, thereby showing us that Ricochet's aim
of fostering civil web
discourse bears real fruit.
A new book on the
writing of history helps explain the breakdown
of contemporary political
discourse.
On this triple basis — autonomy through
writing, externalization by means
of the work, and the reference to a world — I will construct the analysis central to our discussion
of the revelatory function
of poetic
discourse.
Machiavelli
wrote not only The Prince but
Discourses on the First Ten Books
of Livy, in which he went on to develop citizen rights and the institution
of tribunes to protect them.
He had been on the point
of writing for some Christian friends
of his a
discourse on their common salvation when word reached him that such persons had appeared among them.
As the evangelist was
writing the
discourse on the bread
of life, there was no doubt that the picture
of the last supper which Jesus had with his disciples was before him.
Bellah, he
wrote, challenged the mainstream insistence on the fact «value distinction and its elimination
of religion from public life and
discourse, which were the usual conventions
of his discipline.
Hännah
writes about growing up in a large homeschooling family, her experiences with Christian patriarchy and SGM, and the freedom she's found in the intersection
of feminist
discourse and grace - centered Christianity.
Apparently, the milieu
of the
writing of these texts involved apologetic and polemic
discourses with rival religions that existed long before Islam.
In In Praise
of Folly he had
written, amongst other such sharp words: I myself once heard a great fool (a great scholar I would have said) undertaking in a laborious
discourse to explain the mystery
of the Holy Trinity.
That I have taken so long to reply to your
Discourse, venerable Erasmus, has been contrary to everyone's expectation and to my own custom; for hitherto I have seemed not only willing to accept, but eager to seek out opportunities
of this kind for
writing.
The author
writes in 8,1 that the kephalion, the «head» or «essence»,
of the
discourse is the type or class
of High Priest that we have in Christ.
Although the book deals specifically with the Bible as a
written text, the analytic framework is sufficiently broad to be applied to many other kinds
of religious
discourse as well.
This material, partly oral, partly
written, was already in circulation in the communities before the composition
of the Gospels, and it consisted
of narratives, sayings, and other bits
of discourse (including the parables), and the Passion story.
The sermons must be carefully prepared, but even if
written out in advance, the popular preacher seldom took more than «the heads
of the
discourse» into the pulpit with him.
In fact, an entire
discourse was
written on salads in 1698 by John Evelyn, who allowed, «By reason
of its soporiferous quality, lettuce ever was, and still continues, the principal foundation
of the universal tribe
of salads, which is to cool and refresh, besides its other properties» (which included a beneficial effect on morals, temperance, and chastity).
Christine at Pop
discourse wrote On Bloggers, Breastfeeding, Formula, Morality, Change, & the Nestle Family Event and talks about why she chose not to attend the #NestleFamily event and how all
of this impacts blogger relations in general.
She is the founder and editor
of Boston Mamas, the designer behind Posh Peacock,
writes a personal blog at Pop
Discourse, pens the column Minimalist Mama, and hosts the talk video show Life.Style with Christine Koh.
Keep in mind that in
writing this kind
of editorial (and in making her White House statement on Monday), the First Lady is engaging in an unusually political
discourse, in that she's specifically taking issue with Republican - backed efforts to gut the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act.
Christine Koh is the founder and editor
of Boston Mamas, the designer behind Posh Peacock, and
writes a personal blog at Pop
Discourse.
@Dayngr
of «Dayngrous
Discourse»
wrote a post titled «Remembering My Mom, 3 Years Later» http://tinyurl.com/y6t6dqe that was so touching that it moved me to tears.
Christine also is partner and digital strategist at Women Online (and is a co-founder
of sister brands The Mission List and Pivot Boston), a freelance writer and editor,
writes the column Minimalist Mama, and pens a personal blog — Pop
Discourse — where she gives voice to her fascination with pop culture, the intellectually interesting or absurd, Boston life, and parenthood.
So when one reads the
written work
of these thinkers, often one can find (as with Habermas) that there's a way in which the procedural mode
of politics is, in a subtle or hidden way, dependent upon other modes
of politics, but these other modes are not treated in the same honorific terms as proceduralism or
discourse ethics because these other modes are unstable, or frightening or marginal.
Rackham would have been sceptical to say the least about any attempt to conflate natural history with political symbolism,
writing on several occasions that he had no time for any
discourse which assumed «that trees are merely part
of the theatre
of the landscape in which human history is played out.»
WFP Co-Chair Bob Master and Executive Director Dan Cantor refused to accept that the left also engages in the sort
of heated political
discourse that has been widely condemned since the Tucson tragdey — perhaps even with this very e-mail —
writing:
In his welcome address, the Commissioner
of Police, Lagos State Police command, Imohimi Edgal stated that the book could not have been
written at a better time than now, describing the title as apt and germane to national
discourse.
«Eschewing the etiquette
of internal party
discourse, Teachout accused Cuomo
of governing as a Republican, acting as a shill for the big banks and other campaign contributors, and being part
of a «corrupt old boys» club in Albany,»
wrote John Cassidy in his analysis in the New Yorker.
«The challenges identified and solutions proposed become leading topics
of political and civic
discourse statewide,» the Democrats
wrote in the letter, an unfinished copy
of which Capital was allowed to review.
«The events
of Charlottesville and the tactics
of white supremacists are a poison in our national
discourse, and every effort must be made to combat them,» he
wrote.
Seems fairly straightforward all
written down like that, but there's more than enough overlap between the
discourses to induce a permanent state
of wariness in all discussions
of matters relating to temperature.
Whereas Miller regards testimonial
writing as elegiac, and not to be confused with the vulgar
discourse of politics, for Murphy, the testimonial literature
of AIDS «belongs to the continuum
of moral and political conscience that fuels activism in the epidemic and has as an important function: the protection
of the individual».
«The emotionally charged, politicized
discourse on GMOs is mired in the kind
of fever swamps that have polluted climate science beyond recognition,» the environmental writer Keith Kloor
wrote in a Slate article that proclaimed GMO opponents «the climate skeptics
of the left.»
Alone among his critical colleagues who became filmmakers, he insisted from the beginning that his
writing and filmmaking were essentially alternate vehicles for the same
discourse; his early movies functioned as film criticism the same way his reviews anticipated much
of his filmmaking.
More specifically, the researchers 1) examine possible differences by classroom, school, and literacy models; 2) explore the relationship between observable features
of the classroom literacy environment and children's literacy growth during the first grade year; 3) characterize the variability in the levels
of teacher understanding
of the chosen literacy model and
of early literacy development; and 4) assess whether there are qualitative differences in children's oral
discourse skills and
writing skills with the school's chosen model
of literacy instruction.
The ambition
of these students is taken seriously and their courses nurture critical thinking through
writing, inquiry, and
discourse.
The CALS construct is defined as a constellation
of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and
written academic
discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge
of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge
of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge
of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part
of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.
Moffet recognizes scripting as a «flexible learning means that can very effectively teach many aspects
of writing and
discourse - more than teachers yet appreciate» (46).