first paragraph discussing about Gee’s article‚ you state that it “also describes what a discourse community is and defines its characteristics” (Dobias 7)‚ but I feel that in order to dive deep into the article and reach the heart of it‚ you might also want to say how Gee describes a discourse community. You could say that his article “also describes a discourse community as any group of people that uses a discourse when communicating amongst its members‚ providing several characteristics to identify
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Discourse: based on ideas of Michel Foucault‚ discourse theory refers to the idea that the terms in which we speak‚ write and think about the world are a reflection of wider relations of power‚ and since they are also linked to practise‚ are themselves important in maintaining that power structure In the Order of Things (1970) Foucault focuses on fields of knowledge‚ such as economics‚ or natural history and the conventions according to which they were classified and represented in particular
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The social discourse of motherhood is a topic that has been controversial for some time. It has been analyzed from many different perspectives and known to be bad and good in some circumstances. Socially‚ motherhood has not always been accepted. A working and single mother is not given the same status in society as a married‚ financially stable mother‚ even if they both followed the same path of motherhood. There are many discrepancies in society which make it difficult to weigh the implications
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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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Ihsan Ibaddurrahman (G1025429) Term paper for Phonetics and Phonology (ENGL 6002) Discourse Intonation in ELT In order to attain total mastery of English language‚ ESL students should undoubtedly be taught the intonation of English. Without learning this suprasegmental feature‚ English learners‚ regardless of their level of English proficiency‚ would be at risk of causing serious communication breakdown with native speakers. Recent studies show that there has been a growing awareness of 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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Course: BaMMC 2nd Semester Exam title: Multimodal Discourse Analysis May 25‚ 2011 Character (excluding spaces): 22682 Page 1 of 14 OBLIGATORISK FORSIDE Prescribed front page 12-TIMERS PRØVER U. MUNDTLIGT FORSVAR 12-hour take-home papers without oral defence INSTITUT FOR ERHVERVSKOMMUNIKATION Department of Business Communication EKSAMENSNR. (PÅ STUDERENDE): Student Exam No.: (6 digits at the top left corner of you Student ID-card) HOLD NR.: Class No. Ex.: U02 FAGETS NAVN: Course/Exam
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