Ethnography on Fishing
Bryce Pettyjohn
Fishing In The Modern World After an analysis of the sport of fishing, I have learned a lot about its discourse community and how people are involved in the sport today, and how the sport has effected the world today. My research started with the interpretation of several books related to the discourse community, which brought the attention of new information about professional fishing to the forefront of my research of the everyday life of the discourse community members. The sport of fishing has a wide variety of the type of members that represent the community, such as new members, or members that are not as serious as a professional fisherman, but anyone can join the discourse as an up and coming member at anytime, especially little kids. To become apart of this discourse all you really need to do is have the desire to go fishing, which a lot of people use as a relaxation tool for their life. This discourse community was founded out of the need of a food supply, and the need to survive, But since then there has been many advancement in the fishing world, technology has taught people how to catch fish more efficiently. One of the main contributing factors to this is the ability to use cell phones and GPS to guide Fishermen to where they believe they can catch fish, and the ability for hundreds to thousands of Anglers (members of the fishing discourse) to communicate and share relevant information on new ideas and places to fish using the internet/ internet forums. (Newell, Rob. “Defining a professional Bass Angler.”) There is much more to being a fisherman than just having good fishing skills. Having a positive attitude, patience, commitment, respect, and integrity are also what makes a fisherman into an Angler. An Angler would be defined as someone that has been a member of the discourse community for an extended period of time, and have the ability to show proficiencies in the ability to fish. Fishing has a fair amount of lexis in
Fishing In The Modern World After an analysis of the sport of fishing, I have learned a lot about its discourse community and how people are involved in the sport today, and how the sport has effected the world today. My research started with the interpretation of several books related to the discourse community, which brought the attention of new information about professional fishing to the forefront of my research of the everyday life of the discourse community members. The sport of fishing has a wide variety of the type of members that represent the community, such as new members, or members that are not as serious as a professional fisherman, but anyone can join the discourse as an up and coming member at anytime, especially little kids. To become apart of this discourse all you really need to do is have the desire to go fishing, which a lot of people use as a relaxation tool for their life. This discourse community was founded out of the need of a food supply, and the need to survive, But since then there has been many advancement in the fishing world, technology has taught people how to catch fish more efficiently. One of the main contributing factors to this is the ability to use cell phones and GPS to guide Fishermen to where they believe they can catch fish, and the ability for hundreds to thousands of Anglers (members of the fishing discourse) to communicate and share relevant information on new ideas and places to fish using the internet/ internet forums. (Newell, Rob. “Defining a professional Bass Angler.”) There is much more to being a fisherman than just having good fishing skills. Having a positive attitude, patience, commitment, respect, and integrity are also what makes a fisherman into an Angler. An Angler would be defined as someone that has been a member of the discourse community for an extended period of time, and have the ability to show proficiencies in the ability to fish. Fishing has a fair amount of lexis in