This posture allows Foucault to denounce a priori concepts of the nature of the human subject and focus on the role of discursive practices in constituting subjectivity.

A Harkness table being used in a College Prep freshman English class. In order to facilitate the discursive nature of College Prep's rigorous English curriculum, classes are conducted at Harkness tables: oval, wooden tables popularized by philanthropist Edward Harkness when he presented the tables to Phillips Exeter Academy in the 1930s.

The book was not well received by critics, who complained of its discursive nature and poor character development ; William Makepeace Thackeray published a particularly scathing review.

Due to church limitation on public, discursive rhetoric, the medieval rhetorical arts included: preaching, letter writing, poetry, and the encyclopedic tradition.

In a series of articles, Edward Milowicki and Robert Rawdon Wilson, building upon Bakhtin ’ s theory, have argued that Menippean is not a period-specific term, as many Classicists have claimed, but a term for discursive analysis that instructively applies to many kinds of writing from many historical periods including the modern.

He devoted his mornings to writing, and published a number of discursive, rather repetitive volumes devoted to the exposition of his thought.

His style of prose writing is mostly discursive rather than argumentative.

This was part of a general change in the composer's work in which he moved closer to the older practice of Haydn, writing less discursive and more closely organized sonata movements.

The book deals, in typically discursive fashion, with themes familiar to Gould's writing: evolution and its teaching, science biography, probabilities and common sense.

Denotation is divided between description ; covering writing and extending to more discursive notation including music and dance scores, to depiction at greatest remove.

The book deals, in typically discursive fashion, with themes familiar to Gould's writing: evolution and its teaching, science biography, and probabilities.

In her opinion, the central discursive practices of the Enlightenment Republic of Letters were polite conversation and letter writing, and its defining social institution was the Parisian salon.

His collection Conversation and Cognition, co-edited with Hedwig te Molder, brought together a group of conversation analysts, ethnothodologists and discursive psychologists ( including Geoff Coulter, John Heritage, Anita Pomerantz, and Robert Hopper ) to address fundamental issues at the boundary of work on cognition and interaction.

In 2007 he edited a three volume set of books that bring together a wide range of different studies in discursive psychology.

“ All discursive symbolization involves weaving together of contexts into higher contexts ” ( 220 ).

Outside of the philosophical and discursive studies, the everyday phrase bullshit conveys a measure of dissatisfaction with something or someone, but does not generally describe any role of truth in the matter.

The vast majority are shorter, with the discursive imitative paragraphs of the earlier motets giving place to double phrases in which the counterpoint, though intricate and concentrated, assumes a secondary level of importance.

Depending on whether or not it complies with these rules of discursive meaning, a grammatically correct phrase may lack discursive meaning or, inversely, a grammatically incorrect sentence may be discursively meaningful-even meaningless letters, e. g. " QWERT " may have discursive meaning.

But Sayles uses effectively a discursive, episodic format ; he constructs strong scenes with resonant dialogue.

Marie-Louise von Franz, a colleague of the eminent psychiatrist Carl Jung, noted that in these unconscious scientific discoveries the " always recurring and important factor ... is the simultaneity with which the complete solution is intuitively perceived and which can be checked later by discursive reasoning.

Within such large-scale, macrosocial orders, in-effect ritual centers of semiosis come to exert a structuring, value-conferring influence on any particular event of discursive interaction with respect to the meanings and significance of the verbal and other semiotic forms used in it.

Schmich's June 1, 1997 column began with the injunction to wear sunscreen, and continued with discursive advice for living without regret.

In its current state, the study of organizational communication is open methodologically, with research from post-positive, interpretive, critical, postmodern, and discursive paradigms being published regularly.

Transformational discourses and discursive practices, which are open to changes and interventions, as the opposite of the transfirmational discourses with closed semantic structure and clear signs of mental immobility are original analytical categories of her conceptualization and apparatus.

This fault of inaccuracy however was less obtrusive in his series of playful, discursive works in the form of dialogues on his favourite subject, the first of which, Bibliomania ( 1809 ), was republished with large additions in 1811, and was very popular, passing through numerous editions.

The symphony is characterized by its use of string and woodwind solos ; the first movement opens with a long and discursive clarinet solo over a timpani roll ; this idea returns at the start of the fourth movement, fortissimo in the strings, with wind and brass chordal accompaniment ), and subsequent movements include violin, viola, and cello solos.

Proceeding to go into further depth in Part Two, " The Repressive Hypothesis ", Foucault notes that from the 17th century to the 1970s, there had actually been a " veritable discursive explosion " in the discussion of sex, albeit using an " authorized vocabulary " that codified where you could talk about it, when you could talk about it, and with whom.

To deal with this hegemonic domination, Fraser argues that repressed groups form " Subaltern counterpublics " that are " parallel discursive arenas where members of subordinated social groups invent and circulate counterdiscourses to formulate oppositional interpretations of their identities, interests, and needs ".

Hence there are two complementary worlds, or levels of reality each with its own specific mode of experience and expression: while the Enlightenment reduces everything to cold logic and discursive prose, its alternative expresses itself through profound symbols and poetic language.

He is a dreamer and deep thinker, with discursive pondering about " the void ," Zen, and life.

These governmental crises may be triggered by phenomena such as a discursive concern with increasing economic capital costs for the exercise of freedom, e. g., prices for purchasing resources, the need for excessive state coercion and interventionism to protect market freedoms, e. g., anti-trust and anti-monopoly legislation that leads to a " legal strait-jacket " for the state, local protests rejecting the disciplinary mechanisms of the market society and state.

Later, contemplation came to be distinguished from intellectual life, leading to the identification of θεωρία or contemplatio with a form of prayer distinguished from discursive meditation in both East and West.

The standard is split into two parts, a discursive textual description with extended examples and discussion and set of tag-by-tag definitions.

More discursive were the responsa of the later geonim after the first half of the 9th century, when questions began to be sent from more distant regions, where the inhabitants were less familiar with the Talmud, and were less able to visit the Babylonian academies, then the only seats of Talmudic learning.

Some are brief remarks of only a sentence or two ; others recount a story over a few pages, often with discursive personal commentary added.

His work has had significant influence on fields such as linguistics, discourse analysis, and discursive psychology.

Author and critic William Dean Howells argued that Holmes created a genre called dramatized ( or discursive ) essay, in which major themes are informed by the story's plot, but his works often use a combination of genres ; excerpts of poetry, essays and conversations are often included throughout his prose.

In many cases, much of the text of a Higgins book consists of dialogue, often discursive and apparently rambling, from which the plot can be teased out by the reader.

Becoming a character for commerce: Emotion labor, self subordination and discursive construction of identity in a total institution.

His Picture in the Papers ( 1916 ) was noted for its wry style of discursive and witty subtitles: " My most popular subtitle introduced the name of a new character.

But in spite of his scrupulous efforts after accuracy, the success of the book was marred by its obtrusively moral purpose and its discursive character.

Some scholars, for example David Weiss Halivni, describe the longer discursive passages in the Babylonian Talmud as the " Stammaitic " layer of redaction, and believe that it was added later than the rest: if one were to remove the " Stammaitic " passages, the remaining text would be quite similar in character to the Jerusalem Talmud.

In skirting the line between sports journalism and literary fiction, Wiley wrote many Page 2 articles in the third person, featuring discursive, jazz-inflected prose and dialogue conducted between himself and a fictionalized character whose identity the writer left deliberately obscure.