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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People often become a part of the discourse community‚ knowingly or unknowingly in their life. There are a lot of scenarios and examples of us becoming the part of the discoursed community. Specific organizations‚ particularly- cultural‚ social‚ regional or profession oriented organizations have their specific norms‚ values and ideas and may differ from the individual knowledge and familiarity and hence these scenarios becomes a discourse community for that individual. For me‚ the logos‚ pathos and
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Louder with Crowder is a conservative speaker who mainly provides podcasts about controversial topics in modern day society. (Louder with Crowder) In this particular podcast‚ Crowder tries to persuade his audience that hate speech does not exist. (Louder with Crowder) From my own experience in the United States‚ I believe the opinion to be remarkably unpopular which may even lead towards trouble and sanctions within academia. This leads me to believe that the opinion is thought provoking which is
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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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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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logistics of military communication‚ and show how they form a discourse community. According to Bizzel‚ a discourse community “is a group of people who share certain language using practices.” To put it in simple
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The Height of Discourse After I watched two hours of intense play and the huddle split‚ I observed high fives and complex handshakes of some sort. “Hampton on three. Hampton on three. ONE‚ TWO‚ THREE‚ HAMPTON!” They started coming my way; as an ex-basketball player‚ deep down I yearned for a handshake or some kind of acknowledgment‚ but I sat there like a fork in the road. Each member parted around me to my left and to my right‚ some giving head nods and some giving nothing at all. I quickly realized
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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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Everyone belongs to various communities‚ but one type of community that many people don’t recognize is discourse communities. Discourse communities may be difficult to identify and pick out‚ but thankfully‚ author John Swales outlines the necessary criteria needed to be considered a discourse community. Swales says‚ “The concept of discourse community is proposed as a more functional and goal-directed grouping than either speech community or speech fellowship” (Swales 211). He then goes on to give
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