James Paul Gee defines discourse communities as a way of life‚ which consolidates with language and texts (Gee‚ 274). He goes to say that discourses are used to create meaning to activities or to “get things done or not” (Gee‚ 275). According to Swales‚ there are six characteristics in order to be entitled a discourse community. The characteristics are as following: "[It has] A broadly agreed set of common public goals‚ [It has] mechanisms of intercommunication among its members (such as newsletters
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In our book‚ Writing About Writing‚ John Swales defines a discourse community as a group of individuals who share “a broadly agreed upon set of public goals” that use “mechanisms of intercommunication among its members” in order to achieve their objectives (795). I have chosen to examine how the College World‚ the Adrian College school paper‚ operates as a discourse community through the use of various mechanisms in order to solve the main issues that arise. More precisely‚ the research will explore
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Discussing Discourses Many people find the concept of a discourse community to be important enough to write about but many have failed to create a clear and universal definition. Three scholars: Porter‚ Swales‚ and Gee each attempt to create their own definition of the concept. Each of their articles has major differences in their interpretation of the notion of discourse communities while still having underlying similarities. The articles all build off the work of others while also introducing
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analysis of a discourse community that I am a part of‚ I will be focusing on St. Xavier High School and Jesuit education. St. Xavier is a great example of a discourse community and is backed up by the scholarly articles written by John Swales and Joseph Harris. Joseph Harris focuses his argument about what makes a community a community around writing. Harris proposes that “our aims and intentions in writing are thus not merely personal‚ idiosyncratic‚ but reflective of the communities to which we belong”
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Concept of Discourse Community”‚ John Swales reveals that language use tends to be socially constructed‚ and that a discourse community tends to differ from a speech community. A discourse community is commonly defined as a group of people that share a common set of values‚ and establish ways in order to effectively communicate about their goals. A common example of a community discourse is a group of people that share the same culture and speak the same language. Swales argues that discourse communities
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English Reading Response 5 What is a discourse community? To be completely honest‚ I have never actually heard of a discourse community before I read this article‚ so this is quite new to me. 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
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Discourse Community and Language Choice: Study of language choice in a gay community in particular area in Malang. Hima Luluk Il Jannah English Language and Letters Department‚ Faculty of Humanities and Culture‚ Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University‚ Malang‚ Indonesia terumbukayu@gmail.com June 2013 Abstract Language choice in gay community that has many unique kind of language. Keyword Gay ‚ gay 1. Background of Study Nowadays‚ there are many varieties of community
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importance of Discourse and discourse community The concept of Discourse and discourse community is very important in English reading and writing. Discourses are group members’ shared “ways of being in the world” (Gee 484). According to the authors we studied‚ Porter‚ Gee‚ Swales‚ Johns and Porter‚ we willingly or unwillingly are part of many different discourse communities or Discourses. Almost everything we do in our everyday life requires involvement in some discourse community. Discourse or discourse
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Swales is an author who wrote “The Concept of Discourse Community”‚ which is an essay that aims to clearly conceptualize what a discourse community is and does so by outlining six criteria that must be met in order to identify a group of people as a discourse community. In fact‚ in his essay‚ Swales considers hierarchy to be one of the defining characteristics of any discourse community. Swales also claims that within the hierarchy of a discourse community that‚ “individuals enter as apprentices and
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world; however‚ today our focus is to take a look at the discourse community of biology and analyze what components of language do they value more and the reasoning behind it. Before we learn more about the discourse community of biology‚ we need to know something about the discourse community. What is discourse community and who is in discourse community and are you part of discourse community. According to the article “Discourse Community”‚ by
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