CRM 316 Lecture Notes - First Geneva Convention, United Nations Human Rights Council, Hague Conventions Of 1899 And 1907
25 Apr 2013
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Crm316 week 4 human rights & international law . Language as a form of social practice and social process (fairclough, 1989) [we use it to define social reality but he states it helps us shape it] Discourse as a part of social activity; in representations; as a part of ways of being (fairclough, 2003) [part of social activity and part of being text, written language, symbols, etc. We"re talking about, thinking about, reacting to, etc. ] Without discourse, there is no social reality, and without understanding discourse, we cannot understanding discourse, we cannot understand our reality, our experiences, ourselves (phillips & Hardy, 2002) *we"re looking for any hidden agenda/ideologies/connections they make what is being said between the lines?] Example: legal discourse certain groups have more access to this discourse, which we can see with the legal jargon; one without the appropriate training may not understand the language/text]
