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Discourse and Society

nominalisation: using nouns instead of verbs, removes actor, framed as an event instead of an action, obscuring actors and agents.
e.g.: burnt/polluted —>  burning/pollution (incidents)


Discourse: countable noun = discourses.
Discourse: 
-potentially constitutive, can be refuted and challenged.
-Construct identities, reinforce status quo through repetition of dominant discourses (reinforcing power imbalances).
-contribute to transformation of identities; articulation of counter/alternative discourse— a constant struggle for a prime point in the hierarchal narrative. 

WE USE THE LANGUAGE IN A TEXT TO UNCOVER UNDERLYING DISCOURSES

No matter how creative one might think themselves to be, we only realistically speak opinions that echo the words already spoken in our respective communities.
To say something truly original would be incomprehensible—there is no shared knowledge to build on.
Most of us will never actually come up with something original.




(the more exposure we have, the more critical we become.)
(we can only be critical when we have exposure.)
(without sufficient exposure, we cannot be critical.)





when we say something,
we also don't say something—we cannot say everything in a given time.
So by choosing to say this,
we're choosing Not to say that.
and then we have silence.
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