Early in the writing, Gee defines Discourse as a combination of acts: saying, writing, doing, being, valuing, etc. He views Discourse as a social construct not dissimilar from Culture. In fact, in order to master a Discourse, one must go through an intensive process of enculturation or apprenticeship where there is a focus on social practices and supported interaction with people who have already mastered a Discourse.…
A member of a discourse community must learn to appeal to the emotions and values of other members of…
Discourse is in a way language is used socially to deliver broad meanings as it is identified by the social conditions of its use, by who is using it and under what conditions. From my point of view, language can never characterized as ‘neutral’ because it reflects our personal, knowledge and background of our social worlds. Hence, discourse analysis concerns with investigating the form and function of what is said and written. It covers with an extremely wide range activities from narrowly focused investigation of how words such as ‘oh’ or ‘well’ are used in casual talk to the study of the dominant ideologies in a culture for instance like in its educational or political practices.…
4. What is a discourse community? To what discourse communities do you belong? How does a discourse community help establish common ground for its members?…
One rainy evening, I sat in my house bored as all ever and realized that I had an assignment to observe and analyze a discourse community. So I walked over to Holland Hall and sat through a whole Hampton University Men’s basketball practice. I sat on the bleachers trying to be as invisible as possible, mainly because I felt like somewhat of an imposter. An imposter is ( DEFINE IMPOSTER!) and that is exactly what I was doing. The Hampton University Basketball team is one of the most popular sports currently on campus. With fifteen active members on the team out of a whopping 4,567 undergraduate students attending school, this is an extremely small population and discourse community. But how do we know that it is a discourse community? Throughout this paper I will prove this statement, by analyzing the presence of a common language, a means of a common language, a threshold for membership, a means of identifying who’s in, a common belief, and common behaviors.…
Cited: Page: Swales, J. (2014). The Concept of Discourse Community. In Reading and Writing for ENG 100: Writing Seminar 1 (3rd ed., pp. 218-230). Boston: Bedford.…
“The Concept of Discourse Community,” an excerpt from the book Genre Analysis, by John Swales attempts to indicate the actual definition of a discourse community. Swales main argument is that there is a difference between a speech community and a discourse community. Also, that there are six characteristics a group must meet in order to be a discourse community. Swales then provides examples and discusses issues concerning the idea of a discourse community.…
My definition of a discourse community is basically any group of people who share similar interest and knowledge about a topic, have some common background or experiences, and share some way of communicating with each other. The student body here at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) is my discourse community. The student body and I know how difficult it can be the first few days of college to navigate around campus and find the simple things like where to find the library, computer lab, printers, and most importantly where the classes are. We all attended and graduated out of high school during some part of our academic career where the teachers are more lenient, classes are way smaller, and there are constant reminders on what needs…
The excerpt “Arkansas Boys” from Paul 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 goal in salvaging the automotive plant. Additionally, within the group itself there are different levels of experience, an example of this would be comparing Terry to Terry Junior, in which Terry is the expert.…
Carly Krueger English 100J-1027 Dr. Nancy El Gendy Essay #2: Discourse Community Analysis October, 26, 2016…
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…
John Swales, a professor of linguistics with a Ph.D. from Cambridge University, argues about the definition of a discourse community. Swales, who is also the co-director of the Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English at the University of Michigan, has his response to, “Genre…
The discourse must be sublime and elegant in form and content. It must be free of imitation and must transcend ephemeral trends or overwhelming currents, in such a way as to preserve its independence and its distinction. It must be…
This work would not have been possible without the support of my group members, my classmates, Sherry Turkle, Professor Mahaffey, and UNC Charlotte. My group members and my fellow classmates have peer reviewed all of my sources and summaries. To Duane, Jason, and Nicole- Thank you for being patient with me and giving me all of the help I needed to make my paper better. They have gave helpful and valuable feedback for better improvement on my paper. Sherry Turkle has given relevant information in Reclaiming Conversation and it is the primary reason that sparked my inquiry question. Sherry Turkle also provided me with other useful sources for my inquiry. Professor Mahaffey has been a supportive and a useful individual to me. She has also given me helpful feedback and advice that has improved my paper.…
Discussion is a text which present a problematic discourse. This problem will be discussed from different…