The Order of Discourse examines how institutional procedures authorise speakers, organise evidence, and regulate statements. It directs attention to credentials, categories, agendas, and validation. Controls can support knowledge or exclude relevant experience; their legitimacy and consequences require examination in the particular setting.
- FamilyModel
- CategoryParadigms, Traditions & Metatheories
- DomainVoice, Silence & Power
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Paradigms, Traditions & Metatheories
Provides a broad intellectual perspective within which multiple concepts, theories or investigations are developed. Traditions carry histories and commitments; metatheories examine how theories themselves are organized or related.