Discourse

The world’s oceans and coasts are awash in a sea of politics. The marine environment is increasingly busy, changing, and a site of degradation, marginalization, injustice, contestation and conflict over declining resources and occupied spaces at local to global scales. Themes of political ecology, such as power and politics, narratives and knowledge, scale and history, environmental justice and equity, are thus salient issues to understand in ocean and coastal governance and management. This subject review examines research on these themes of political ecology in the ocean and coastal environment and reflects on how the insights gained might be applied to governance and management. Political ecology provides important insights into: the influence of power in ocean management and governance processes; the manner in which narratives, knowledge, and scale are used to legitimize and shape policies and management efforts; the effects of historical trajectories on present circumstances, options, and practices; and the nature of inequities and environmental injustices that can occur in the marine environment. Moreover, ocean and coastal researchers, practitioners, and decision makers ought to engage with the political processes and injustices occurring in the ocean. Moving from critical insights to constructive engagements will ensure that political ecology helps to plant seeds of hope in the Anthropocene ocean.

In this unit you will learn about the main purposes of advertising in
newspapers, different types of newspaper advertisements, components
of a newspaper advertisement, and the different techniques advertisers
use to persuade consumers. Understanding how advertisements
function to persuade consumers will make you a critical reader of advertisements
and, as a result, a more critical consumer.

The perpetuation of inequalities around the world is best understood by looking at the power dynamics of a given society. Systems and institutions are set up to mold certain types of citizens through subjectification. Anthropological theory can shed light onto the methods in which these structures are continually reproduced, and how they therefore help maintain the cultural status quo and its disparities. The concepts put forth by Pierre Bourdieu, Karl Marx, Michel Foucault, and Emily Martin highlight various processes of power that become naturalized, internalized and embodied, and ultimately regenerate oppressive classifications and ways of being. Bourdieu's ideas of habitus and dispositions, Marx' impressions of modes of production, Martin's concepts on the relation between the body and capitalist labor, and Foucault's notions on power and knowledge, each support the perception that unseen cultural influences exert power over individuals via recreated structures, discourse, and hegemonies.

Tsvangirai. This battle has been fought on many fronts including the media and international forums with ZANU PF accusing the MDC of being 'puppets' of the British and Americans. On the other hand, the MDC accuses ZANU PF of 'dictatorship'. This contestation has largely been more pronounced during election periods where it takes place through political advertisements in the media, music and election rallies among others. Whereas there have been many studies of the elections, media coverage of elections, alleged use of violence as an instrument of control, ZANU PF discourses through the media, official speeches and music among others, there has been little study of political advertising in Zimbabwe. This is despite the centrality of political advertising in political contestation in a democracy . This paper, through a review and analysis of existing Zimbabwean literature on media coverage of elections, music nationalism, political journalism, cultural journalism among other political communication related studies, proposes a new theory of post-colonial African political communication and/or political advertising. It argues that existing scholarship tends to rely too much on Western theory and post-colonial essentialism to interpret ZANU PF discourses without acknowledging the peculiarities of the post-colonial African state which makes it different from the Western liberal democratic state and thus makes Western theory alone is inadequate as an analytical tool to understand post-colonial African phenomenon. The paper argues that the practice of political advertising in Zimbabwe can best be understood through political communication theory and through acknowledging that the African post-colonial state is an 'artefact' of colonialism that has no link to any pre-colonial reality .

Ziel dieses Artikels ist es zum einen, mit dem Begriff der diskursiven Exklusion eine Konzeptualisierung von Exklusion zu unterbreiten, welche den theoretischen Anforderungen an einen soziologisch-analytischen Begriff gewachsen ist und zum anderen, methodische Hinweise zur Erforschung von Exklusionsprozessen zu bieten. Ich werde hierzu die drei emergenten Forschungsperspektiven der Diskursanalyse "nach dem Strukturalismus", der Dispositivanalyse, und der wissenssoziologischen Diskursanalyse vorstellen und jeweils danach fragen, welches Analysepotenzial von ihnen ausgeht, um soziale Exklusion soziologisch zu fassen. Dabei wird sich zeigen, dass jede dieser Perspektiven bestimmte Aspekte in den Vordergrund ruckt, dabei aber wiederum andere vernachlassigt. Am Ende des Artikels werden Moglichkeiten einer Kombination der Ansatze diskutiert. URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1302199

This paper explores the discursive use of selected emotive interjections (Ow!, Ouch!; Ugh!, Yuck!; Whoops!, Whoopsadaisy!) in spoken British English. The data (drawn from the Spoken BNC2014) are coded for age, gender, social grade and type of dyad to identify potential factors governing the discursive use of these interjections. Based on 140 relevant tokens, the results suggest that: 1) The individual interjections vary significantly regarding how frequently they are found in discursive uses (p<0.001***). 2) Whoopsadaisy! is not attested in discursive uses. 3) Young female speakers behave differently from the other speaker groups in that they use emotive interjections discursively significantly more frequently (p=0.006***). 4) Female speakers in general use a wider range of interjections discursively: Ow! and Whoops! in discursive uses were absent from male speech. 5) Socioeconomic status is irrelevant, as is 6) type of speaker dyad. Thus, the social life of emotive interjections is mainly influenced by speaker gender, and if the speakers are female, also by their age.

The more our societies diversify into a loose network of lifeworlds, the more important it becomes to find a platform to hold them together. This common platform cannot be made out of a potpourri of policies, but needs to be built around a credible narrative about a better future for all. Shaping the Society of Tomorrow means bringing together transformative alliances on a common platform for change.

""L’objectif est de mettre au jour la construction de l’événement dans sa rhétorique et sa performance, sa diffusion médiatique et sa reconnaissance sociale. Comment la production discursive autour de la Marche des Fiertés 2011 interroge-t-elle les enjeux
de représentations – et donc l’identité LGBT et l’action du mouvement ?

L’étude du cas de 2011 permet d’interroger les potentialités médiatiques et communicationnelles du discours polémique. Pourquoi y a-t-il eu polémique ? Quels enjeux cristallise l’affiche ? Y a-t-il réellement eu polémique ? En quoi les discussions
suscitées par l’affiche de l’édition 2011 de la Marche des Fiertés révèlent les enjeux de l’événement qu’elle est censée promouvoir ? Finalement, en quoi « l’affaire de l’affiche » marque-t-elle une rupture et témoigne-t-elle (déjà) des transformations
du « répertoire d’action collective » [Tilly, 1986] ?

La polémique autour de l’affiche implique différents acteurs : l’Inter-LGBT, les associations LGBT, l’agence créative, les journalistes et, dans un second temps, le grand public. J’ai analysé le conflit interprétatif à travers le prisme du temps (la
durée) et celui des médias (la capacité à diffuser). J’ai étudié ce cas de manière diachronique, en tenant compte des trois dimensions de « l’affaire de la Marche des Fiertés 2011 » : en amont, en nous intéressant aux raisons et conditions de
conception de l’affiche (entretiens avec des membres de l’Inter-LGBT et l’agence créative chargée de la conception de l’affiche) ; en suivant le déroulé de l’affaire, en considérant les acteurs et les espaces médiatiques mobilisés ; et en aval, en
analysant la reconnaissance de l’affiche (test de l’affiche).

Si à ses débuts la Gay Pride était subversive – au sens strict puisqu’illégale –, elle fait aujourd’hui partie du calendrier festif parisien. La montée en généralité opérée dans le discours d’accompagnement, et notamment le passage de l’homosexualisation de l’espace public à sa sexualisation tout court, réinterrogent cette subversion dans le cadre du mouvement LGBT.

Le discours d’escorte participe à la représentation du groupe cible en ce qu’il le raconte : un système complexe de discours polyphoniques s’articule selon une double logique identitaire et médiacentrique. La polémique autour de l’affiche de la Marche 2011 participe de ce discours et voit dans le médiatique sa modalité privilégiée. Avec la polémique – médiatique – comme cadre, l’affiche 2011 devient prétexte à des discours identitaires qui la dépassent : l’objet de la dispute s’éloigne du visuel-affiche pour venir se placer au niveau plus global de la représentation
du mouvement LGBT, représentation mise en tension entre l’idéologie d’une organisation militante et les réactions-commentaires polémiques du public à travers
les médias – sociaux. Il s’agit alors de distinguer l’objectif des médias de « faire polémique », les effets involontaires d’une communication inappropriée et les objectifs stratégiques que pourrait avoir une organisation militante à exploiter les
potentialités communicationnelles d’une polémique médiatique.

Finalement, dans le discours d’escorte de la Marche des Fiertés LGBT, la représentation des sexualités alternatives – et de la sexualité en général – n’est plus un signe subversif mais un signe de reconnaissance et un mécanisme de captation,
elle correspond à un horizon d’attente, à une demande sociale.

Mots clés : polémique, médias, représentation, sexualité, mouvement LGBT, militantisme""

This article deals with identity political discourse in situations of cultural movements, precisely in situations of migration. It addresses the question of migration through the interpretation of past and in the making events. In this context, it focuses on the perception of Other, and on its representation. As such, it observes spatiotypies in their discursive specificities. Spatiotypies are attributions of power and discourse. They state, mentally and politically, the social life of individuals. The corpus is composed of French newspaper articles, from the middle of 2015 to the end of 2016. This period saw the dismantling of the &quot;Camps de Calais&quot; and the distribution of migrants to other locations on the French territory.

Статья продолжает цикл публикаций, рассматривающих проблемы заимствований в языке современных СМИ. Описываются группы заимствований в текстах «Российской газеты», выявляются причины их вхождения в современный русский язык и степень ассимилированности, анализируются процессы адаптации, перспективы вхождения заимствований в лексическую систему современного русского языка.

Assemblage is one way to examine complexities in today’s world. In Deleuzian thinking, assemblage refers to both the act of assembling diverse elements and the arrangements of these elements for a specific purpose. Importantly, it is the interaction between elements that allows the assemblage to become more than the sum of its parts. Applying this concept to long-term research on Cold Rush – the transformation of the Arctic commons into commodities – I argue that examining the boom, bust, and buzz around the commons can be fruitfully conceptualised and studied with assemblage. This approach brings with it an ontological shift from binaries into multiplicities and multiple temporalities. Assemblage also sheds light on the role of discourse in these transformations and shows how language gains its productive force only in collaboration with other elements.

The textbook “English for Psychologists” is  designed specifically for the students of
psychology enrolled in an undergraduate degree program. The textbook reflects
the current trends and requirements for practical training of foreign languages
not only in everyday life but also within the field of an academic discipline.
English for psychologists consists of 26 lessons. The  textbook chapters cover such
significant branches of psychology as General Psychology, Personality Psychology,
Industrial / Organizational Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Clinical Psychology,
Psychotherapy, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology, Political Psychology,
Crisis and Emergency Management Psychology. The carefully selected professional texts from various fields of psychology will assist the students to develop unsurpassed skillsin listening, speaking and writing.
Each chapter of the textbook includes several texts with different levels of difficult tasks,  as well as jokes and a variety of texts by contemporary authors based on the main topic of the lesson. The language material is presented in the communicative form, special  attention is paid to the development of listening, reading, speaking and writing skills.
The textbook provides carefully graded practice and progression in such academic skills as listening to psychology lectures and speaking in seminars and conferences.
The textbook also equips students with the specialist language they need to participate successfully in psychology discussions on a professional level. Extensive writing and reading comprehension exercises come from psychology lectures, and all reading texts are taken from different fields of study. It also draws attention to the study of key psychology vocabulary that undergraduate course students need to develop. The special glossary and numerous vocabulary tasks are aimed at the control and activation of the oral speech. Students will learn to  understand and take useful notes on extended psychology lectures, including development of an argument on the main topic of the lesson and expression of their own points of view. Speaking skills will help to participate effectively in a variety of realistic situations, from seminars to presentations, including not only professional discussions but also communication in everyday situations. Reading skills will help to understand a wide range of specialized professional texts and analyze complex academic texts from different angles.
The textbook will assist students greatly to prepare for all types of scientific presentations.
Writing assignments include grammar and translation tasks, essay writing practice and the use of proper academic phrases. Vocabulary practice consists of a wide range of activities, helping to develop the students’ knowledge and use of key vocabulary, both in the field of psychology and of academic studies in general. Each vocabulary task can be used as a reference basis,providing the students with revision of the key words and phrases presented in each chapter.
Although the textbook ‘English for Psychologists’ covers a wide range of academic subjects, yet all titles within the same chapter present the same topic, the same skills and same vocabulary points. Teachers and students, therefore, will deal with a versatile English for Specific and Academic Purposes (ESAP) course, knowing that each chapter focuses on the same key skills and follows the same structure. The systematic approach is aimed to developing academic skills through a relevant content.
English for Psychologists can be recommended to those who are professionally engaged and interested in the study of psychology.

Introduction
Das Lehrbuch bietet eine systematische Einstiegshilfe in die soziologische Beschäftigung mit
Gesellschaft in diskursanalytischer Perspektive und führt gut verständlich in die für die Soziologie relevanten Felder der Diskurstheorie ein. Es gelingt der Autorin damit sowohl eine Herleitung und Erklärung der zentralen Begriffe und Konzepte, als auch eine anwendungsorientierte Kontextualisierung, so dass die Diskurstheorie auch für aktuelle gesellschaftstheoretische Debatten fruchtbar gemacht wird. Durch die Lektüre erhalten Lesende grundlegende Einblicke in die soziologische Diskurstheorie, lernen diskursive Praktiken neben anderen als eine relevante Dimension gesellschaftlicher Praxis kennen und bekommen Methoden zur Analyse von Diskursen und deren Verhältnis zu Gesellschaft an die Hand. Die Autorin lädt ihre Leser*innen im Rahmen der Lektüre dazu ein, mit der diskursanalytischen Brille den ein oder anderen Blick auf Gesellschaft zu riskieren und das soziologische Arbeiten mit den Werkzeugen der Diskursanalyse auszuprobieren.

Der Inhalt
Diskurswolken am gesellschaftlichen Denkhorizont • Diskurs und Gesellschaft – alte Bekannte, aktueller denn je • Mit dem diskursiven Werkzeugkoffer bis zum gesellschaftlichen Denkhorizont • Multimediales Material • Weiterführende Literatur • Erkenntnisse evaluierende Fragen

Die Autorin
Dr. Franka Schäfer ist Soziologin. Sie lehrt und forscht zu Soziologischer Theorie, Soziologie der Populärkultur, Soziologie des Protests und Soziologie sozialer Ungleichheit an der FernUniversität in Hagen.

Keywords
Diskursanalyse Michel Foucault Diskurstheorie Gesellschaftstheorie Medientheorie Sozialswissenschaftliche Methoden Einführung in die Diskursanalyse
Authors and affiliations

    Franka Schäfer
        1

    1.FernUniversität in HagenHagenGermany

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A tanulmány egy szervezet belső, elektronikus kommunikációjának írott fórumára, a belső levelezési listára írt e-maileket elemzi a férfi és a női nyelvhasználati különbségek szemszögéből. Ez a levelezési lista egy virtuális demokratikus tér, amely minden dolgozó számára hozzáférhető: az ide címzett leveleket mindenki megkapja, és bárki küldhet üzenetet a többieknek. A kutatás arra keresi a választ, hogy milyen nyelvhasználati sajátosságokkal jellemezhetők a férfiak és a nők által irt, belső nyilvánosságra szánt elektronikus körlevelek. Kulcsszavak: elektronikus kommunikáció, férfi és női nyelvhasználat

In dem Beitrag werden die Möglichkeiten und Erkenntnisgewinne einer transdisziplinären Verschränkung der analytischen Kategorien &quot;Raum&quot; und &quot;Diskurs&quot;, insbesondere für die kulturwissenschaftliche Stadt- und Öffentlichkeitsforschung, ausgelotet. Ausgangspunkt dafür ist eine gemeinsame Forschungserfahrung der Autorinnen, die interdisziplinäre Ethnografie politischer Raumaneignungen in Mexiko-Stadt, bei der sich die jeweiligen Spezialisierungen (ethnografische Raumforschung bei WILDNER, semiotische Diskursanalyse bei HUFFSCHMID) kreuzten. Diese &quot;Kreuzung&quot; wird hier zunächst in ihren konzeptionellen Prämissen nachvollzogen und anschließend nach Lerneffekten für die analytische Praxis befragt. Ausgangspunkt dafür ist die Annahme der gegenseitigen Durchdrungenheit von Räumlichkeit und Diskursivität: kein Raum (im Sinne von LEFEBVRE) kann ohne seine diskursive Konfiguration gedacht werden, Diskurs (im Sinne FOUCAULTs) wiederum ereignet sich nicht im &quot;luft...

Roman expansion into the Rhineland was followed by centuries of religious entanglements that involved the interactions of individuals and communities with a variety of backgrounds, interests and agendas, and, over time, an array of cultic narratives and practices was maintained, transformed and abandoned.. The notion of cultic heterogeneity used in this discussion is informed by the perception that all social constructs are reproduced through continuous affirmation vis-àvis extent alternatives. Cultic discourse is inherently heterogeneous due to the discrepant attitudes, abilities and actions of situated agents. This will be explored by considering the symbolic narratives and ritual practices associated with the Hercules Magusanus cult on Rome's Germanic frontier.

The purpose of this study was to assess discourse profiles of nursing-home residents in the early, middle, and late stages of dementia. Sixty transcripts of conversations between nursing-home residents with dementia and their nursing aides were analyzed with a discourse analysis schema. The results suggest that discourse level and utterance level characteristics in conversations were affected by the stage of dementia in different ways. Utterance level characteristics, such as local coherence and cohesion, were more impaired in the late stages of dementia compared to early stages. Discourse level characteristics, such as global coherence and elaborations on a topic, were more impaired in the middle and late stages of dementia compared to early stages. Nursing aides do not seem to make attempts to compensate for memory deficits of dementia residents in their conversation where they would need to do that most: providing cues and repetitions for late-stage dementia patients.

This paper critically examines the Equality and Human Rights Commission's (EHRC) 2019 report into racism in United Kingdom Higher Education. After outlining the context of the report, the paper is situated within discourses of internationalization in higher education (HE)and those of investment, excellence and social mobility. Using transversality, an analytical tool developed by Gilles Deleuze, as a means of critiquing these connections, two groups of findings are presented. First, the report misrepresents the role of racism in HE as an isolated phenomenon rather than as an integral part of the discourse, logic and practices of internationalized HE. Specifically, it masks the discourses of investment, mobility and excellence that underpin it. Second, the report evidences, but fails to identify, the negative consequences of internationalization in higher education discourse. Specifically, discourses of investment, excellence and mobility are linked to the threat of decomplexification, securitization and, ultimately, ethical vacuity in HE.

The article highlights the significance of the first full English translation of Naqd al-Ḫiṭāb ad-Dīnī (Critique of Religious Discourse), one of the most characteristic and important works of the acclaimed Egyptian intellectual Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd (1943–2010). The work was firstly published in 1992 by Sīnā li-an-Našr in Cairo, coinciding with the beginning of the so-called Case of Abū Zayd (1992–1995), the campaign of Egyptian fundamentalists against the scholar. Abū Zayd’s critique of the dominant discourses and worldviews in the Arab world, created both by the Islamic fundamentalists and so-called Islamic left, has gained huge acclaim in the international academia but so far there has not been a full translation of the work into English (also taking into account the important role of the full German edition published by Chérifa Magdi and Navid Kermani in 1996). In 2018 Jonathan Wright’s translation was published by Yale University Press in the series “World Thought in Translation”. The edition was enriched by Carool Kersten’s scholarly introduction. The following article discusses the translation dilemma regarding Naqd…(eg problems with finding equivalents for Arabic semiotic and hermeneutical terminology utilised by the Egyptian scholar), giving examples of the choices made by the translator. Adding to it, the more general issues of the impact of Abū Zayd’s work on the contemporary rereading of Arab-Islamic turāṯ are analysed.

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http://shcyhome.org/2015/01/chc-episode-4-developmental-thinking/
Episode 4 of CHILDHOOD: History & Critique offers a brief review essay of the 2008 book _A Historical Sociology of Childhood_ and an extended conversation with its author - André Turmel, professor emeritus at Laval University.

CHC is a series of interviews, essays, and happenings in historical studies of childhood presented for the Society for the History of Children and Youth.

This essay will analyse the film ‘A Scanner Darkly’ (ASD) in relation to the philosophies of Deleuze and Foucault. Using Deleuze’s concept of affect, this essay will relate the characterisation of the main character – Robert Arctor, (an undercover agent attempting to uncover the supply chain of a new drug to which he is addicted: ‘substance D’) – and his experiences in certain scenes to a communication of a fragmented, disrupted idea of self-identity and experiential meaning. It will go on to discuss how ASD, in its characterisation of both Arctor and other main characters, communicates complex Foucauldian notions of discipline, discourse, and ‘‘panopticism’’. These ideas will be discussed with reference to the notion of film as a unique format for doing philosophy, with an aim to showing that, while ASD is not in itself a strong case for film-specific form of philosophy, the complexity and perspicacity of the ideas communicated shows why film is useful to the practise of philosophy. Ultimately, this essay will seek to show that ASD both portrays and communicates complex philosophical ideas on identity, meaning, power and society.

Purpose Terminologies such as 'integrated marketing' and 'market segmentation' may be common parlance in contemporary marketing literature, but in postwar America they had distinct racial orientations mediated by a history of segregation. This paper examines the resonant discourses in the construction of the Negro market in postwar America and observes that the field of marketing provides a historiography where Negro marketing was constructed as dilemmatic and through a duality of the Black market impacting the well-established White market. A survey of marketing literature from the 1950s to the 1970s reflects a discursive turn from scepticism and caution in approaching the Negro market to evoking the ethical discourse and advocating equal rights for the Black consumer. Design/methodology/approach A review of articles on the topic reveals that research occurred in other academic fields beyond the remit of marketing and these different disciplines approached the issue of the Negro market from different research orientations and fields of enquiry. This paper focuses on academic literature that was published in marketing and business journals which were concerned with marketing to the Black community. The journals reviewed in this paper

This paper proposes the interpretation of video games as discourse (in the explanation of discourse commonly used in linguistics and studies of natural language, not as understood in semiotics or cultural studies) to explore further the dynamics through which video games can propose structured meaning and articulate an argument. Such topic is especially relevant for video games with an agenda, whose goal is not just to produce an engaging game experience, but also to convey a message and have some control over the desired outcome (persuasion, information, expression, aesthetic experience). The notion of discourse can help classify serious games according to their specific aim, and can help understand how meaning production in procedural rhetoric takes place.

RESUMO: Este artigo analisa os conceitos desenvolvidos pela ciência dedicada ao cuidado da pri-meira infância em Montevidéu da segunda metade do século XIX através de alguns discursos médicos. Influenciados pelos manuais médicos da origem europeia, nossos profissionais da saúde na última década do século XIX, se ocuparam de produzir bibliografia dedicada à prevenção da mortalidade infantil, mediante a redação de conselhos para os cuidados pré e pós parto. Uns dos métodos para combatê-la foi a lactância materna e ante sua impossibilidade, devido a condições físicas e psicológicas, através de uma enfermeira. Assim, analisaremos as recomendações dos médicos referenciados a elei-ção das amas de leite considerando seu caráter, alimentação, comportamento, idade, estado civil e qualidade do leite. A partir de um olhar de gênero e discursivo, nos propomos desenhar o perfil eu-gênico dessas enfermeiras desde a legitimidade de um discurso médico. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Maternologia; Enfermeiras; Medicina. ABSTRACT: This article analyzes the concepts developed by the science dedicated to the care of early childhood in Montevideo of the second half of the 19th century through some medical discourses. Influenced by medical manuals of European origin, our health professionals in the last decade of the nineteenth century, were engaged in producing literature dedicated to the prevention of infant mortality, through the drafting of advice for pre and post-natal care. One of the methods to combat it was breastfeeding and its impossibility, due to physical or psychological conditions, through a nurse. Thus, we will analyze the recommendations of the doctors regarding the choice of the milkmaids considering their character, diet, behavior, age, marital status and quality of their milk. From a gender and discourse perspective we propose to delineate the eugenic profile of these wet nurses from the legitimation of medical discourse.

This paper analyzes discourses of everyday racism and colorblind racism on an internet forum. While skin color is invisible online, identities as black, white and shades in between show through participants' perspectives and communicative behavior in discussions about racism. Critical race theory and whiteness studies argue that there is a perception gap between black and white perspectives on racism, linked to positionality in social structures, which influences experiences and shapes perceptions of the world. This paper shows how black participants in online discussions tend to be more conscious of racial issues and skilled at recognizing racism, while whites often reflect a colorblind discourse that denies structural racism and reproduces everyday racism. Starting with critical perspectives of conscious blacks on the forum and drawing on Cultural Discourse Studies and critical race theory, this paper examines power relations and cultural perspectives underlying white participants' claims, perspectives and speech acts.

Today, identity politics seems almost quaint. Faded into memory are NEA funding battles and culture wars over representations of identities, dismantling of identity-based social programs such as college admissions and affirmative action, and the spawning of an all-purpose, anti-progressive code phrase, “politically incorrect.” Moreover, scholars, particularly those working in critical/cultural areas, have theorized identity away in a multitude of ways: combining categories into hybrids and cyborgs, challenging its liberal humanist assumptions, critiquing its biases, tracing its processes of discursive constitution, queering its dualisms, and envisioning its aftermath in a post-identity world. Identity—at least insofar as an authentic expression of some aspect of inner self from which to build coalitions—seems to have had its moment in the sun, now safely tucked into a thematic week or two on syllabi or a chapter in a textbook: a familiar, but not terribly new or exciting topic.

In this article we develop an approach to coincidences as discursive activities. To illustrate the range of empirical questions that can be explored in the analysis of coincidence accounts, we examine one single written account, which was submitted to a website of a research project to investigate the statistical dimensions of coincidence experiences. Our analysis is broadly ethnomethodological in that we examine this single case to identify how structural and narrative components work to constitute the recognizably coincidental quality of the events so described. The analysis identifies a mirror structure that resembles chiasmus, a figurative device found in classical texts. The analysis also describes how the account is designed to address inferential matters related to the site to which it was submitted. In the discussion we reflect on the implications of this approach for other approaches to coincidence.

The present study deals with variation in discourse relations in different registers of English and German. Our previous analyses have been concerned with the systemic contrasts between English and German, cf. Kunz & Steiner (2013 a/b), Kunz & Lapshinova (to appear) and have addressed some cross-linguistic differences with regard to textual realizations of selected subtypes of cohesion. In our current work, our focus is on the empirical analysis of cross-linguistic variation between registers. In order to obtain a more comprehensive picture, we investigate three main types of cohesion in combination: co-reference, substitution and conjunction and their subtypes, cf. Halliday & Hasan (1976). We extract instantiations of cohesive devices from an English-German corpus of spoken and written registers. The data is analyzed with statistical procedures which show that subcorpora can be grouped along particular combinations of cohesive devices.