Ladd CH2 p. 117 Tanja Bierschneider (6:36)

Ladd CH2 pages 83-84 Grieser (6:53)

Discusses six domains/types of discourses Dr. Ladd identified that Western majority societies delegate responsibility  to rationalize and justify their oppressive actions upon “The Others.” They are political and administrative discourses, academic discourses, specialist discourses, medical discourses, scientific discourses and media discourses. They are all part of the discursive system that Deaf communities have to deal with.

Ladd CH2 p. 76-77 Marvin Miller

Discusses the concept of “discourse analysis” in understanding how certain thinking, cultural values, and beliefs come to existence and those with prestigious discourses like in universities, medical establishments and communication media can establish “knowledge” and create the “discursive system.” This system has often been a tool of colonialism of minority cultures that do not have the same kind of “discourses” like those of majority cultures.