school‚ or music group. Researchers have deemed these groups as discourse communities. Ann Johns explains discourse communities as‚ “a basis for sharing and holding in common: shared expectations‚ shared participation‚ commonly held ways of expressing” (320). Discourse communities hold certain standards and actions that lead to the functioning of the group. The Bartlett City Court Clerk’s Office is a stand out discourse community that has certain vocabulary‚ genres‚ and tasks that allow them to
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Investigating a Journalistic Discourse Community When you walk into a newsroom of journalists‚ you will see people reading‚ discussing‚ and writing the news. Journalists from all around the world‚ mostly the United States‚ join in Long Beach‚ California‚ where they collaborate to gather and publish information in the Gazette Newspapers‚ forming a professional discourse community. A discourse community is a group of individuals unified by common interests or goals and who have methods for communicating
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types of discourse communities‚ which have different goals‚ values‚ language‚ issues‚ effects and communication style. The discourse community that I identify myself with is the boarding family discourse community. This community may only be made up of a few members‚ yet the impact they have in their neighborhood is quite significant. They may not be related or even have known each other for more than five years‚ yet the bond and connection they have is so strong. My discourse community is composed
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6. DATA ANALYSIS - First‚ the reliability of the questionnaire (both customers and retailers) was checked using IBM SPSS Version 20. Cronbach’s alpha is a measure of internal consistency‚ i.e‚ how closely related a set of items are as a group. It is considered to be a measure of scale reliability. If the value of Cronbach’s α is greater than 0.6‚ one can proceed with further analysis. If the value of α is less than 0.6‚ the questionnaire needs to be redesigned. 6.1 Reliability Testing- • Customer’s
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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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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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consumed but simply increase the rate of the chemical reaction (Whitesides and Wong‚ 1985). Amylase exists in the saliva of humans and certain mammals that catalyze the hydrolysis of starch into smaller carbohydrate molecules or sugars. Alpha-amylase is an abundant component of saliva in
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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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