Community Of Practice: Eckert And Mcconnell-Ginet

The Unseen Barista A discourse community is a commonly seen, but rarely identified language phenomenon. These communities can be found within any people group and in a variety of settings. Discourse communities often are defined as a group of individuals who share “a broadly agreed upon set of common public goals [have] mechanisms of intercommunication among its members,” “uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback,” makes use of “one or more genres” that help the group achieve its shared goals. The group has also “acquired some specific lexis,” and has a healthy relationship between novices and experts (Swales 795). Discourse communities are groups of people who employ specialized terms and procedures to accomplish their particular ambitions. In order to identify these groups the observer must pay attention to the use of language within these communities. Language is a refined yet powerful means of communication. In order to analyze what a discourse community is, one must first determine the utility of language within that organization. The Starbucks baristas are one of the many unrecognized discourse communities. Starbucks has a special term for their employees who compose beverages: barista. Borrowed from the Italian for bartender, a barista is a person who creates and serves varieties of different coffee. The baristas are a unique discourse community because their goal is to be efficient and excellent through silent communication in

Do you ever think about the way you speak and why? Well, Paul Robert does an excellent job explaining why people use the dialect they use in Speech Communities. He discusses that people change their use of language throughout their lives to conform to either society or to what kind of person they want to be, or to just conform to who they need to be at a particular moment, in which I agree. People’s choice of language, including myself, are affected by many of their surroundings, such as where they live and grow up at, their peers, and a person’s work place.

Language is a very important and significant part of individuals’ life. It is considered as one of the best device of social behavior. Language is a means with the help of which people communicate and send a social message to one another. But language does have very special characteristics according

The Adaptive Voice Our actions are what define us as humans. Words are part of our actions. Therefore, our voice defines who we are, so when we change our voice we change the fabric of who we are. Zadie Smith, the author of “Speaking in Tongues”, knows this first hand when she moved from a working class district of London to Cambridge. She felt that she was able to have both, the Cambridge voice and the Willesden voice, and use them to expand her base of knowledge; like learning a new language. However, as she became more engrossed in her studies the core of her personality that kept her at her roots disappeared and she was consumed by the Cambridge life style. She lost herself in Cambridge because she was imitating the Cambridge life style and according to Susan Blackmore’s essay “Strange Creatures” humans imitate naturally to learn. As humans imitate they change and because they change, their voices change as well; building an idea within us that our voices need to be unified, or singular. When we change voices we change mindsets making it incredibly difficult to switch between two mindsets on a whim. Our voices must be singular in order for us to correctly display our identity to the world.

Nature and nurture both play various roles in children’s language development. Nature is a child’s inherited genetics and characteristics. Nurture is the persuasive influence a child develops from their environmental surroundings. The two have created many debates on whether one has more influence on a child’s language development than the

For this assignment I will be explaining the terms; speech, language, communication – speech, language and communication needs. For the second part I will go into details explaining how the above mentioned terms support children’s and young people’s development and will also describe the potential impacts . I will be using examples in my work and will also add how adults can effectively support and extend children language, speech and communication needs.

Language is beautiful and wondrous phenomenon. Not only is it a crucial component in everyday communication, but it also accentuates the culture of those that speak it. As a student pursuing a career in speech-language pathology, the aspects of communication, such as language, are the pillars of my future profession and will be deeply embedded into my daily life. There are many reasons I have chosen this path, but my childhood friend, Jasmine, can be accredited with my finishing decision to become a speech-language pathologist. When I was in elementary school, Jasmine was one of my closest friends, but I did not always get to play with her at recess because she frequently had to see an audiologist, or go to speech therapy. Jasmine had a congenital

Competency Thesis The Organizational Context of Practice: The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources is a government organization. The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources has different bureau’s which addresses needs of the public. The Bureau of Children and Families serves populations from children, youth, and adults. The Bureau of Children and Families also ensure facilities are licensed, and the children in those facilities are safe.

Although there was no discourse specifically to the performance via audio, the power of witnessing and continuing to discuss, but as well the performance in the space was powerful. Mirroring the performances, the collective’s engaged within collaborative discourse, we communicated as we engaged during our own facilitation of our readings. By critiquing and understanding each other as well as the topics, our own agency played a huge role, given the amount of people and the time. So both in our classroom and in ONGOING we can draw links and parallel show the importance of collaboration, and there must be room for discourse in both the classroom and on the

The first speaker, Peter Johnson, is not someone you would expect to be speaking on non-verbal communication due to his job focusing on verbal communication. He too told of his astonishment of being

In this chapter, I examine and compare the communicative behaviour of three groups – Dance Boys, Fly Eights and Cash Money Brothers. I clarify how patterns of speech among these groups can be understood as linguistic styles and how they differ across the groups.

Have you ever thought about how you talk to people? How the way you communicate with people changes depending on who you are talking to and where you are? A speech community is a group of people who share a similar vocabulary and similar rules of language. These communities are often found in schools, places of work, homes, churches, and even on the internet. A speech community occurs wherever there are people. A very interesting speech community in my life happens at the place I work. It's a restaurant called Subzero.

Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky are two influential thinkers who have impacted the speech and language pathology field with their key theories. Piaget believed that there are four main stages in a child’s development that lead to a child learning language. Without these stages, Piaget argues that a child cannot cognitively grow at an appropriate pace (Kaderavek, 2105, p. 18 and p. 23). However, Vygotsky argues the Social Interactionist Theory, which states children develop language through social interacting with adults who are linguistically knowledgeable and the influence of the Zone of Proximal Development (Kaderavek, 2105, p. 18 and p. 23). With including these theories from Piaget and Vygotsky, this paper will explore how both of these

Although Jim did learn speech it became noticeably odd to others around him as he had developed his own, unique grammatical characteristics and his poor articulation meant he didn’t acquire normal language skills (Sachs et al 1981). Bruner suggests that this was due to lack of social interaction in his learning of speech, which again highlights the importance of nurture in promoting a child’s language development.

Community of practice is a group of individuals that share a common interest, and work together to make their interest better (Community of Practice). The use of community practice can be a significant "social learning system" for those that participate within it (Etienne, 2009). So by working with others, within the community of practice, you are able to further expand on your idea and form a community with others. By using a community of practice within my advocacy plan can help expand my knowledge of my topic. I will be able to learn from others experiences and will be able to expand on their ideas. Community of practice also helps to create a larger and stronger community. By creating a strong community I will hopefully be able to