Discourse

The way we organize and manage knowledge is part of how we go about positioning ourselves in the economy and society.

In social theory, there is a lot of useful work on discourse, which can be defined as: "a cohesive set texts and practices which orders bodies, animate and inanimate, within specific communities of practice", which draws on linguistics and applied linguistics, and provides a slightly different theoretical framework, or K-M-etaphor, for the way we deploy knowledge and knowledge management in ordering out lives, and the lives of others.

See [|Discourse typologies] for a wide ranging blog on discourses, and Metasemiotics and Practical Epistemology for a specific application of discourses to practical epistemology.

**'Counting' and Critical Discourse Analysis** Discourses are ways of organizing knowledge, and managing knowledge as in //controlling// knowledge, and also controlling social practices. Even the way different media 'count' the same thing can reveal what the 'discourse' they are operating within. This ...  is a basic piece on discourse and text, (Williams, R.T. 1993), with an analysis of a range of discourses in Apartheid news media, all of which purported to be counting the 'same' things...