Activity Report on Discourse Communities Communication is key for every organization or group to make progress and achieve results. Whether an organization be purely academic or for entertainment‚ it is through communication both will meet their goals. Discourse communities as defined by Swales are communities of individuals who meet together to achieve a goal. Although‚ having a goal and communication does not make any community or group a discourse community. The definition of discourse communities relies
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Name: Duong Hong Anh Group: 06.1.E1 Date: 01/02/2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Discourse Analysis Assignment 1 Text: [pic] [pic] Features of context 1. Addressor: a BBC journalist 2. Addressee: the US readers 3. Audience: online readers 4. Topic: US to resume shortly Haiti medical evacuation flights 5. Setting: place: in a column of online BBC newspaper; time: February 2nd‚ 2010 6. Channel:
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Language analysis-practice EAL cat Fear must not blind us to facts The article ‘Fear must not blind us to fact’ has published on the Insight Publications (website) in 2013 which was wrote by Cameron Bright. The article is about the Melbourne government is going to install more CCTV cameras in the city to prevent random attacks not happen again. He argues that the government should think carefully about install the CCTV before any evidence shows it makes appreciable different to public safety. The
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Discourse markers (words like ’however’‚ ’although’ and ’Nevertheless’) are referred to more commonly as ’linking words’ and ’linking phrases’‚ or ’sentence connectors’. They may be described as the ’glue’ that binds together a piece of writing‚ making the different parts of the text ’stick together’. They are used less frequently in speech‚ unless the speech is very formal. Without sufficient discourse markers in a piece of writing‚ a text would not seem logically constructed and the connections
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Julia Allgeier Ms. Newhouse English 101 section 61 9/16/14 A Discourse Community Have you ever been among people who are very much like you? That it does not matter what differences you have you all have a lot more in common. A member of 4-H constitutes a discourse community because of an agreed set of common public goals‚ level of membership‚ and something that provides information and feedback. An agreed set of public goals for our community is that as a whole group
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Language analysis In the opinion article "One too many" that was published in the herald sun band written by Fiona McCormack‚ the authors main contention was that the government should support improving the system response to family violence. Serious and concerned tone was used with persuasive techniques such as evidence‚ rhetorical question and inclusive language to persuade the reader to agree with the authors viewpoint. A serious and concerned tone is used by the author to give the
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Contents 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………2 2. E.E. Cummings’s biography………………………………………...3 3. Stylistic innovations…………………………………………………8 4. Conclusion…………………………………………………………...15 Introduction My course paper consists of the biography of Cummings and his stylistic innovations. Cummings was born in Cambridge‚ Massachusetts‚ to liberal‚ indulgent parents who from early on encouraged him to develop his creative gifts. While at Harvard‚ where his father had taught before becoming
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My story To be a part of a discourse community‚ one must be credible‚ possess factual knowledge and draw on the values of its members to be accepted into the community. At the same time‚ a person must learn typical ways people in that community communicate and argue. When I entered the discourse community of my high school athletic department I acquired knowledge‚ established credibility‚ and drew on the values and emotions of other members of the community. Although‚ one might question my standing
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assessment. The teaching of language and literature‚ it would be no exaggeration to say have changed beyond all recognition. Globalisation in terms of our world becoming a much smaller place has understandably brought great challenges for educationalists‚ these challenges must be seen in a positive light. Access to a world of language and writing can in my view only be seen as a great bonus for all of us involved in teaching. Globalisation has had an immense impact on teaching English‚ I need not
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What is a discourse? Describe two competing discourses of childhood and suggest the ways that they can have an impact on children’s lives. The concept of discourse is the key to understanding a social constructionist approach to childhood. A discourse is an independent set of interrelated ideas held by a particular ideology or worldview. The social constructionist approach tries to describe the different ways in which knowledge of children and childhoods are constructed. Different discourses of childhood
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