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Throughout Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes employs visual analysis in a deeply personal and novelistic style as he engages with the art of photography, exploring how visual images communicate messages to the viewer. Inserting himself into the text and usurping theory for intimacy, Barthes explores the essence and nature of photography while simultaneously constructing a eulogy,Continue reading “Visual Analysis: Weeks 4&5 | Anna Boase”

According to Fran, discourse could be a single speech or speech act, or a systematic ordering of languages involving certain rules, terms, and conventions. Therefore, discourse should be a concept, and it cannot be understood as the way of its literally meaning. For us researches, we need to understand “discourse” in different situation specifically. TheContinue reading “923 WEEKLY INDIVIDUAL WORK DISCOURSE ANALYSIS (YAODONG JIA)”

What are the particular difficulties that researchers face when there are no step by step procedures to follow, yet there is a requirement for the systematic analysis of a dataset? Wanlu Jiang A discourse is a group of statements which provide a language for talking about- i.e. a way of representing – a particular kindContinue reading “Discourse Analysis”

What are the particular difficulties that researchers face when there are no step by step procedures to follow, yet there is a requirement for a systematic analysis of a dataset? Discourse analysis, as defined by Tonkiss (2004), is a method of analysis characterized by its preoccupation with the production of meaning through texts and speechContinue reading “Discourse Analysis: weeks 2&3 | Anna Boase”