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Language discourses - Coggle Diagram
Language discourses
Discourse metaphors
Correctness : language is seen as either right or wrong, correct or incorrect.
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Decline : language is represented as undergoing a steady decline from its once-great peak in the past.
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Infection and disease : change or variation is seen as a threat to the health of the language, weakening and damaging it.
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Linguistic Relativity
The Sapir Whorf hypothesis states that language shapes the way we view people and concept, with the strong version saying that language controls how we think
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Discourse is defined as a way of thinking, talking feeling and acting about something
Discourses shape the way we see the world, and Fairclough stated that 'languages are centrally involved in struggles for power'
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