John Swales is an author who wrote “The Concept of Discourse Community”‚ which is an essay that aims to clearly conceptualize what a discourse community is and does so by outlining six criteria that must be met in order to identify a group of people as a discourse community. In fact‚ in his essay‚ Swales considers hierarchy to be one of the defining characteristics of any discourse community. Swales also claims that within the hierarchy of a discourse community that‚ “individuals enter as apprentices
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Clemens book Made in Detroit is a clear example of a discourse community. The main reasons that the Arkansas boys are a discourse community is because of their profession‚ where they spend time‚ and how they interact with one another. One thing that relates to all of the Arkansas boys and makes them a discourse community is their profession. All of them are salvagers working at an automotive plant in Detroit. This fits into Swales concepts of a discourse community because all the workers have a common
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This paper will conduct a critical discourse analysis on North American media coverage of the World Indigenous Games. Jiwani and Young (2006) offer a helpful framework for a methodical approach to exploring Indigenous representations in media. In their article on the missing and murdered women of Vancouver’s Eastside‚ they studied 128 newspaper articles over the course of five years in order to uncover patterns on how Indigenous people are framed in the media. The article clearly states that the
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limitations of social work practice within an organization‚ such as a hospital‚ that operates from a biomedical discourse (give an example)? The biomedical discourse is one of the most influential discourses in the health care profession today (Healy‚ p. 20). Biomedicine is a dominant and pervasive model in health care settings and there are strengths and limitations in working within the this discourse. One of the strengths of working within this model‚ it allows you to work within a multidisciplinary
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A Discourse Theory of Citizenship This article discusses the concept of citizenship and how citizenship as a form of public engagement is crucial to democracy as a whole. The author‚ Robert Asen‚ presents a new view that citizenship is a dynamic mode of public engagement. The first section of the article discusses questions about public beliefs and perspectives. The second section of the article discusses how citizenship is a mode of public engagement. The third section discusses how public
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With these appeals a writer such as I‚ will be able to convince this class of my success in joining the discourse community of animal shelter volunteers. A discourse Community is a community of people who share not only knowledge about specific shared topics but also similar backgrounds‚ values‚ and share a common language. I will prove in this paper that I successfully entered one of these discourse communities and was accepted by showing my
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Learning about discourse community in writing is very essential because it helps students learn about their discourse communities. I learned a lot about the use of language in a discourse community. This essay has not only taught others about Pakistani community I have also learned new things about my community. This essay has also helped me move away from five-paragraph essay format. I have also read articles which described the discourse community the author entitled too. This essay has taught
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The Journey of A Successful Soccer Player In order to be accepted into a discourse community‚ a person must learn typical ways people in that community communicate and argue. In this paper I will prove that I entered the discourse community of my high school soccer team by acquiring knowledge‚ establishing my credibility‚ and learning the game I love. In other words‚ I will be using the ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos appeals. I love to play soccer and watch the professionals who play on TV. I have played
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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
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A discourse community is a group of people who speak and share the same interests in certain topics‚ knowledge‚ and vocabulary; they also use similar jargons specific to that community. I belong to several discourse communities ranging from family‚ friends‚ and church to my ethnic group‚ weight watchers‚ and my classmates. The discourse community that I am going to discuss in this paper is the one that gets me motivated and eager to take part every Tuesday; it is the women’s bible club at my church
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