Examples Of Discourse Community
As hard as it is to really admit that our society is broken up into small groups. These individual groups can be classified as a discourse community. For example, a youth choir at church, a football team, and Girl Scouts are all classified as a discourse community. What is this so called discourse community? Well, a discourse community is a group of people who all share a set of common goals with each other. Although, there are numerous of discourse communities, they all use different languages to communicate with the members that are within the group. McCarthy states that “community members share characteristic “ways of speaking” that is, accepted linguistic, intellectual, and social conventions which have developed over time and govern spoken
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Usually, these conflicts are small. For example, when we had a meeting on October 11, 2015, Erwin felt like our voices were not being heard, because we had to pick a different date for our lock in and they was trying to pick the activities for us to do there. It was a big problem with the date that we had originally had chosen, so my mother, the youth director, had suggested that we do a one day event instead of the overnight, and Erwin’s whole body language changed. As a youth, I see his frustration, because we had started planning this a while ago, and now we have to reschedule the date we had our minds set on. Another conflict that we had earlier in the day was between my brother Darrell, Erwin, and Erica. It was our Sunday to sing, so we was in the choir and my brother was really complaining about how his stomach was hurting badly, so my brother stopped singing and had a mad look on his face. I told him to go in the audience so he would not get in trouble for not singing, but Darrell said “No, I’m staying up here”, so I left the situation alone. Erwin, on the other hand, did not hold anything back and began to tell him his favorite saying, “Get up and sing, you owe GOD more”. I guess Erwin and Erica thought he was playing about him having a bad stomach ache, so Erica said, “You too old to be playing in the choir and I hurt sometimes too”. At this point my brother Darrell, had gotten very upset. The text messages and the meetings we have with each other help us work toward our goal most effectively, because the text messages help us know when we have to meet and what time the meeting will start, and the meetings help us to become more knowledgeable about new information, such as programs and events. In this discourse community, none of the members have speaking or writing difficulties within the group, because the group mostly sing and verbally communicate with one another. The person that has
Usually, these conflicts are small. For example, when we had a meeting on October 11, 2015, Erwin felt like our voices were not being heard, because we had to pick a different date for our lock in and they was trying to pick the activities for us to do there. It was a big problem with the date that we had originally had chosen, so my mother, the youth director, had suggested that we do a one day event instead of the overnight, and Erwin’s whole body language changed. As a youth, I see his frustration, because we had started planning this a while ago, and now we have to reschedule the date we had our minds set on. Another conflict that we had earlier in the day was between my brother Darrell, Erwin, and Erica. It was our Sunday to sing, so we was in the choir and my brother was really complaining about how his stomach was hurting badly, so my brother stopped singing and had a mad look on his face. I told him to go in the audience so he would not get in trouble for not singing, but Darrell said “No, I’m staying up here”, so I left the situation alone. Erwin, on the other hand, did not hold anything back and began to tell him his favorite saying, “Get up and sing, you owe GOD more”. I guess Erwin and Erica thought he was playing about him having a bad stomach ache, so Erica said, “You too old to be playing in the choir and I hurt sometimes too”. At this point my brother Darrell, had gotten very upset. The text messages and the meetings we have with each other help us work toward our goal most effectively, because the text messages help us know when we have to meet and what time the meeting will start, and the meetings help us to become more knowledgeable about new information, such as programs and events. In this discourse community, none of the members have speaking or writing difficulties within the group, because the group mostly sing and verbally communicate with one another. The person that has