Friday 13 December 2013

A thought about my Reasons for Writing this Blog

Like most people, every day, from when I wake to when I sleep my mind is consumed with thoughts of one kind or another.  Basically I daydream lots. I reckon that this is the natural state of the human mind: figuring out items, events, states, actions, reactions and problems.  Is that not what daydreaming and 'zoning out' entail: the ability to process life.  Anyway, daydreaming is an important part of what I do to navigate the world around me.  When I'm not daydreaming I'm usually over thinking things - whatever that might mean.  In fact I was once told that I think too much. On receiving the information I began to think about why someone might think that I think too much. Then I thought about that for a while until I drifted into a daydream... lovely stuff.  

Monday 2 December 2013

(Critical) Discourse Analysis Briefly Explained

"Discourse Analysis" means the examination and study of communicative events. The term “communicative event” refers to any act of communication whether it is written, spoken, pictorial, or sign. A communicative event can consist of anything from a single morpheme (a single meaningful unit of language such as a word or a meaningful part of a word) to a book, speech, film, TV series, political speech, news report, or other semiotic event.