A Clear Picture Of Your Discourse Community

Discourse communities are groups of people who share similar values, goals, and ways of communication. Although it is more of a broad definition, to me discourse communities can be more simplified. My definition: sharing the same experiences, individual passion, and journey as your destined group. Even though high school is bygone, the Langston Hughes Volleyball Team is still considered my discourse community. Not to be biased but we are the best. Performing rigorous activities such as sports requirements

Discourse communities can come in many different variations whether they differ in goals or in the ways they communicate. Some discourse communities may very well play important roles for the rest of society as a whole. One example of these vital communities is the United Sates Army Special Forces. You may find yourself asking, “What exactly is the purpose of this community?”. The goal of Special Forces is simple, to serve and protect our nation and to carry out special missions. In this essay

Discourse community can be formal or informal. For example, in any professional field such as lawyer, they communicate by using terminology, abbreviations or other specific jargon with people who share the same knowledge background. This can be regarded as formal one. A less formal discourse community might be followers of a famous person, these followers are familiar with details of the person’s life; thus, they share the same information in a particular community. The first text, shown in appendix

of expertise. To become talented at sewing, it would take a lot of practice. However, in the virtual world, expertise lacks in value, after all, why hem your pants when you can just glue them? Pinterest is one of many social media sites that influences the digital culture by way of free access to barrier free zones, developing virtual communities, identities and even virtual dioramas. With that being said, without the skills of media and information literacy, some may unknowingly peruse low quality

Springboard Diving as a Discourse Community The world of diving has been around since the 1800’s and has been seen at the Olympic games since 1904. It first started off being called “fancy-diving” where the aim was to plunge into the water and see who could achieve the furthest depth underwater. It then progressed and became more complex involving specific skills and dives which first only men were allowed to participate in, and later women came into the society. To this day, diving is one of the

Critical discourse analysis aims to uncover ideology and power in discourse by understanding the relationship between textural features and larger social practices. It draws on many other approaches to discourse, including Halliday’s systemic functional linguistics. (1) The three levels of discourse analysis: 1. Micro: Individual “being myself” referred to as the local level. 2. Meso: Community- recognition, expectations and interactions. 3. Macro: national – social categories and classifications

one I managed actually to hear. The pit in my stomach told me that this time was serious, and that the routine conversation I was used to having with my dad may not go to plan. That was the day I joined a discourse community that I never thought I would. John Swales defines discourse communities as "groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals" (Swales). For the most part, communication in a divorce situation is very pathos, or in other words; emotional. It can

Another way in which language can prevent or resolve a conflict is by its role in nationalism that implies a process of unification. Unification can either be the cause of a conflict because your local identity is attacked or be the cause of a resolution because, inherently, people are setting apart their differences and coming together into a nation. In the process of building a unified nation, a unified language must appear as well. Smith (1998), argues that the unification of language, for example

can see this in the first line of each stanza, “Take up the White Man’s Burden”. Besides, he explains the difficulty of this duty while saying: Take up the White Man’s Burden, Send forth the best ye breed Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives’ need (1-4). This suggests that it is not just the colonized people who are bearing the negative effects of this process of civilization and held in captivity, but also the Westerners may expose their fellows to death which

explain three types of unprotected speech. Unprotected discourse implies discourse that is subjected to directions issued by the administration. It implies discourse that is totally precluded subject to legislative directions. Unprotected Speech: can be arranged into vulgarity, words that beg to be defended, deceitful deception, backing of fast approaching rebellious conduct, and slander. Dangers are additionally regarded as unprotected discourse since they constitute terrorizing. Words that need defending