AIM This study analyses discourses that migrant fathers in New Zealand draw on to explain their decision to have a child. BACKGROUND Little is known about migrant men's reproductive decisions in the context of contemporary/active fatherhood. DESIGN A discourse analytic research study. METHODS Qualitative research was conducted in 2009 where Chinese and Indian migrant men took part in focu...

Based on the investigation of medical discourses referring to school sanitation, this study addresses the spread of the Hygiene science in the State of Paraná, southern Brazil, between 1920 and 1937. Discourses to schools present in many sources, mainly periodicals, Archivos Paranaenses de Medicina and Revista Medica do Parana, pointed out the perception of medicine underpinned by Hygiene, in w...

Literature on modern racism identifies denial as one of its key features. This article examines the discourses of denial that feature in the talk of local anti-racism actors in Australia, and asks what drives these discourses. The research draws on qualitative interviews undertaken with participants involved in local anti-racism in two case study areas, one in South Australia and the other in N...

It is with much interest that we read recent exchanges which employed the discourses of threat and protection to explore the genesis and nature of the CanMEDs framework. 1,2 Different discourses allow us to consider familiar subjects from a new perspective, and it is thus that we would like to suggest an alternative discourse which has arisen in our day-to-day use of CanMEDs: namely the discour...

reviewing the dialogues in the press of constitutional era, especially its usage climax as a façade of new criticism, is our basic goal in this study. emphasizing the press, as a principal tool of informing /reporting of the time, is due to their critical role. the main query, here, is that, can we thematically put these discourses into analogous approaches? applying a descriptive-analytic meth...

Drawing from a critical and socio-cognitive approach to discourse analysis, this paper analyses the discursive creativity deployed by feminists in production of slogans for last 8M (International Women's Day) rallies 2018 2020 Spain. Findings show how creative strategies identified banners, recontextualization multimodal metaphor main, triggered new feminist movements (Feminism 4.0, Feminism 99...

Scientific discourses are rhetorical constructs for interpreting, articulating, and coordinating the bits of information and knowledge produced by science. Discourses also help scientific communities promote and advocate particular strategies for action. A review of the literature on ecological integrity has led us to identify four scientific discourses: (1) Wilderness-Normative, (2) Systemic-N...