critical analysis of power discourse in zeinab habash’s poems discourse analysis is a modern approach which flourishing and growing in the context of postmodernism. norman fairclough’s three-dimensional framework in critical discourse analysis is one of the most practical aspects of this theory that includes analysis of (spoken or written) language texts, analysis of discourse practice (process...

How does the expert domain ‘Cooperative Design’ construct and constitute itself discoursively as a discipline in the field of Scandinavian System Design? In relation to this question this paper will explore some central themes within the discipline and show how it constructs its topic and domain in a discourse based on the concept of the computer as a tool. It will further examine how the disci...

In Chapters 3 and 4 I portrayed the organisation of turn, sequence and repair in different L2 classroom contexts. In this chapter the perspective broadens as I describe the overall organisation of L2 classroom interaction. I introduce the concept of the rational design of institutional interaction and identify the institutional goal as well as three interactional properties which derive directl...

* E-mail: [email protected] Abstract This article analyses language interpretation in the context of maternity health care. By scrutinising how maternity health care staff reflects upon their experiences from the everyday institutional setting, the article shows that they are caught between a discourse on language interpretation as migrants’ rights and a racialised discourse where language ...

Despite repeated calls for change, the problem of widening access (WA) to medicine persists globally. One factor which may be operating to maintain social exclusion is the language used in representing WA applicants and students by the gatekeepers and representatives of medical schools, Admissions Deans. We therefore examined the institutional discourse of UK Medical Admissions Deans in order t...