Discourse Communities

The discourse community that I'm going to talk about and that shaped my identity is my youth group discourse community. The audience for this would be anyone who wants to know about my experiences with this discourse community. I believe that the audience would be interested in this because they would like to know more about this discourse community and how it forms the different identities in it. The purpose I am hoping to get out is for my discourse community to be explained in this essay and to show what my discourse community is all about. My discourse community is called Jobs Daughters International. It has many social values and has influenced my identity in many ways. The social values that it has is just teaching the skills that are formed and brought out in the discourse community.

A discourse community is a group of people who share a particular interest and use certain language to communicate with each other. You probably belong to many discourse communities and didn’t even knew it. I belong to a variety of them and they help me out abundantly. Think about it, your discourse community help you out mentally, physically, and emotionally. One discourse community I belong to is The Worship Center. I love being apart if TWC because the entire church is dynamic in many different ways, the members are intentional, and most importantly they are educational.

Finding people who share common interests and enjoy the same activities as yourself can often be difficult to find, but is necessary to have. Especially during college, a time where you are receiving your independence, but unsure of what that truly means, feeling lonely is valid and expected. However, college can offer many resources to aid you in these emotions, by having plenty of discourse communities you can join, or even offering you the opportunity to create your own. As quoted by Herzberg in The Concept of Discourse Community, “the idea of a “discourse community” is not well defined yet” (469). Despite the vague concept John Swales offers, he further goes on to elaborate on what six characteristics discourse communities can be identified through. A discourse community which one of my roommates participates in is the Vietnamese Student Association (VSA). The VSA is a cultural club for students at University of California, Davis, who identify as Vietnamese, and want to come together with others a part of the same background. The VSA is a perfect model of a discourse community, as it passes the checkpoints Swales provides to identify one.

The conversation of assimilation into a discourse community has been a long standing presence in academic conversation. Especially if a religious community is given the title of a discourse community. Typical methods of assimilating new members into a desired religion usually standout. For example, representatives of a religious organization go door to door to give out information about the religion is common practice, it a simply direct. Daniel Olson states in his research that smaller religious groups find more committed members through leaving and joining the group, compared to larger religious groups (359). Although Rahsaan Maxwell and Erik Bleich uses Muslims as his topic, presents relatable assimilation reasoning that Muslims who were

According to John Swales (1990), there are six characteristics that are adequate and important for recognizing a discourse community. Firstly, a discourse community has standard public objectives that they strive to achieve. Members of a discourse community all share the same common goals they are anticipating to attain, and they do not have individuals with separate goals. For instance, the Salvation Army public goals are “to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.” They offer spiritual, physical, and emotional service to the public, as well as the opportunity to donate. Secondly, a discourse community has various techniques of communication for members to correspond with each other. For

What is a discourse community? According to John Swales, a respected written communication analyst, a discourse community is described as a group of people that have the same goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals. In addition, “A discourse operates within conventions defined by communities, be they academic disciplines or social groups” (Swales, 119). This is not be confused with a speech community, “a community sharing knowledge of rules for the conduct and interpretation of speech” (Swales 121). In determining whether or not a group is a discourse community, there are several certain rules, rather a list of criteria, in which

​A discourse community is a group of individuals who share objectives, customs, and experiences. Arguably, an individual may have several discourse communities. For example, the said person could belong to a running community, food’s enthusiast community, a family, and a student community, which is also a discourse community. In some cases, these discourse communities may overlap as they share commonalities. More specifically, is the English class as the discourse community where students share perceptions of the course workload and how these perceptions influence their grades.

Music has always been a thing that has interested me. The idea of people putting their talents together to create something has always amazed me. Being in a discourse community like music is always going to be difficult starting out. Working with others was never my strong suit, and all of the preparation and studying stressed me out. It sucks to try very hard and have it all result in nothing. It is the idea of perfection that everyone strives for. In my case, it is a group effort of the people involved in my discourse community to achieve our shared goal. We strive to please ourselves and others listening by giving a solid performance. My music class is a discourse community that shares a passion of music and a similar goal. We assist

This was definitely a great experience where I got to explore a discourse community that I do not share the same values as and knew very little about previously. While one thing I learned was that it is easier to replicate many different things with vegan-friendly products, this made me realize that the experience in its entirety when you consume food is very important. If someone had handed me the corned beef seitan from the radical reuben and did not tell me what it was, I would have never guessed it was corned beef. But when it was placed with thousan island dressing, cheese, and sauerkraut it was pretty obvious when I tasted it that it was a reuben. So I have come to the realization that it is actually not very difficult to make an accurate

Looking back over the semester and pondering all that I’ve learned is a bit of a shock. Included in my portfolio are two papers that I have revised and added to. The revision process is not an easy one for me to complete. A perfectionist with time limitations, is not an easy balance for me to maintain, so while my papers are never perfect, I do try to be thorough when completing an assignment. The variety of topics covered in this class are vast and have added an innumerable amount of success to my writing skills that cross over into daily life as well as my other classes. Friendships that I didn’t have prior to this class are an added bonus that I was not counting on.

When I speak, write or communicate in other ways, I do so with the intention of talking to a particular audience. When I hang out with my friends I talk differently than what I do with my grandparents. How I use language depends on upon the context I am in, the audience and the purpose I am trying to achieve. This one of several aspects of a Discourse community. A discourse community is more than just language; it is also the goal of a collective unit. What makes a particular group feel inclined to participate in particular event, styles of teach etc. My discourse community is football and the way in which I interact with individuals of the same community is very unique. Through language and understand we are all bound by the same group, and it gives us all a special bond with each other.

As people we tend to associate with others with a common interest working together to accomplish something great for others or for ourselves. Amongst us there are an infinite of numbers of a discourse communities, which is limitless to identify each one. John Swales, author of “The Concept of Discourse Community”, describes it as group of individuals that share a common goal and sub-goals as a whole. Or as James Porter definition of a discourse community: “is a group of individuals bound by a common interest who communicate through approved channels and whose discourse is regulated. These community represent certain ideology and views of the world that defines them apart from others. Swales states it must meet six specific criteria

In todays society we work together as Discourse Communities with out our consent. For instance in my life I have been daily involved in activities that form part of different communities such a nurse community, dance community, educational community and family and friend community. This miscellaneous community's experience specific and uniform goals, audience ,convention genres and specialized vocabulary.Nevertheless even though the have all these things in common all discourse communities own different purposes.

to other students on their essays and give recommendations on changes they would make or parts of the essay they could work on. During free writes, I was able to express my thoughts on the assigned readings such as Swales and UNC; I wrote about what I thought about the readings and what main points stood out to me. Worksheets handed out in class are also a form of informal writing. For example, this worksheet about A “discourse community tends to be a Specific Interest Group” asked me questions on the six concepts of a discourse community and I input what I believed was related to a discourse community; no answer was fully correct or incorrect.

I have become a member of the Economics Club for more than two years now, and I have never regretted doing so. The club provides its members a chance to build a community among students who share a common interest in Economics while acquainting ourselves with economic research and related field. Moreover, my experience of being a member at Economics club presents to me an introduction to the concept of discourse community, as Linguist John Swales defines, which is constituted by six different characteristics, as a threshold level of members with relevant content and experience in achieving their common goals by means of communication through utilizing mechanisms of intercommunication among members, participatory medium to inhibit feedbacks and information exchanges, genres, and specialized terminology (Swales, 471). As I come to aware that we inherently belong to certain discourse communities; our religious background, ethics, educational level as well as our personal interests and activities are examples of discourse community which empowers us to construct our own social networks. What caught my attention here is it is common that many discourse communities choose to employ diversified genre in the communication of their aims. Through utilizing the functionality of each form of communication possesses helps such discourse community to establish a more refined and adequate communication processes among members. Taking this into consideration, the broad members of Economic