Ann M. Johns‚ a well-known linguist has studied the way communities communicate with each other and the specific ways they do so. In “Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice: Membership‚ Conflict‚ and Diversity”‚ Johns defines communities of practice as something that “refers to genres and lexis‚ but especially to many practices and values that hold communities together or separate them from one another” (500). Communities of practice are groups of people who use distinct language‚ objectives
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January 23‚ 2007 To: Teacher From: Student Subject: Analyzing a Discourse Community I am analyzing my bowling league for our homework assignment‚ in which we were required to identify specialized terms‚ proper topics‚ channels‚ and rules. Specialized terms During a bowling league there are many terms that a person that has never bowled might not understand such as getting tapped. What could sound a little vulgar really means that a bowler’s shot‚ or throw‚ was a good ball
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traditions”(Newton D Baker). Through exploring the history‚ power structure‚ slang words‚ rushing process‚ membership obligation‚ the way Phi Gamma Delta members dress‚ and how students who are not in a fraternity see the members. We will see how this discourse community can seem bias to outsiders. Phi Gamma Delta was founded on May 1‚ 1848 by six men who graduated from Jefferson College in Pennsylvania. The Phi Gamma Delta Chapter‚ nicknamed Fiji or Phi Gam by the members‚ has a hundred and thirteen chapters
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Did you know that there are four types of discourse communities? There’s the professional community‚ which is your job‚ career or working environment. Your social communities are your friends and family. The civic community is the clubs‚ hobbies and extracurricular activities you attend to or participate in. The last one is your cultural group‚ religion‚ ethnicity‚ environment cultures all play into this one. My discourse community happens to be a mix of all four of these. I am a competitive dancer
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focusing on the discourse community of Comp. 1900. What is a discourse community? A discourse community is a group of people involved in and communicating about a particular topic‚ issue‚ or in a particular field (What Is a Discourse Community?). Comp 1900 is an introduction to computer science course. The reason why I have chosen to see this class as a discourse community is because I believe it fits into the six Swales rules for deciding if a community is a discourse community. The rules go as
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University of Michigan‚ John Swales‚ “The Concept of Discourse Community‚” a discourse community is defined by six characteristics: 1. A discourse community “has broadly agreed to set of common goals public goals.” This is evident in my discourse community because as marketers our common goal to is to communicate our ideas through oral‚ written‚ and visual communication as well as build strong and profitable customer relationships. 2. A discourse community “has mechanisms
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group in my English 101 class. We were assigned with researching and writing a paper on a discourse community of our choice. The community we decided to focus our work on was the Edge at Mason‚ a group that helps bring people together through team-building strategies. The need that our work was attempting to respond to was the need to come up with a solution to a potential problem within the discourse community. This problem arose from the lack of any formal supervisior or scribe during the community’s
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Discourse Community Project 1. I am studying the outdoors discourse community. a. Majors relating to the outdoors include ecology‚ environmental studies‚ sustainable food production‚ climate science and geography. Related departments include: Biology‚ Environment and Society‚ Plants‚ Soils and Climate‚ Watershed Sciences and Wildland Resources. Some disciplines are ecophysiology (the interrelationship between the physical function of something and its surroundings) and behavioral ecology (the way
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CVPA Discourse Community There is a large variety of academic discourse communities available at the university today. Deciding to go to college is deciding to enter an academic discourse community all on its own but deciding to choose a major is entering a more specified discourse community. There are many similarities and differences between each community which makes it difficult for some people to choose‚ including myself. Comparing and contrasting majors can make it easier for someone to choose
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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS To truly understand what discourse analysis is‚ it is important to first understand what discourse is. There are three ways in which we can describe discourse; each of which are of equal importance: Firstly‚ discourse can be described as language beyond the level of the sentence. By this we mean that it is a type of language that extends past features such as sounds (phonetics)‚ structures (syntax) and the parts that make up words (morphology). The second description
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