Discourse communities are groups of people that share the same goals‚ ambitions‚ and equal beliefs. I believe that one single person can belong to many different discourse communities depending on who they are‚ on the inside. For example three discourse communities that I belong to are the Faulkner county sheriffs department‚ my church youth group‚ and my group of buddies I play video games with. Faulkner county’s sherrifs department was a big part of my career. Even though I don’t work in the jail
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of the Sermon on the Mount discourse‚ which is one of the five discourses of the Gospel of Matthew (5-7‚ 10‚ 13‚ 18‚ and 23-25). This passage locates relatively earlier in the Sermon. Professor Dallas Willard (1998)‚ in his book The Divine Conspiracy‚ claims that “The later parts of the Discourse presuppose the earlier parts and simply cannot be understood unless their dependence upon the earlier parts is clearly seen” (p. 138). If the sequential order in the discourse is important‚ then the earlier
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Savage or Civilized The Second Discourse‚ written by Jean Jaques Rousseau in 1754‚ discusses the human state of nature. This work compares savaged men and civilized men‚ mostly in physical terms. Rousseau aimed to find the source of inequality in the human race‚ by stripping man down to his animalistic nature. He begins by discussing how a natural man uses his instincts for self preservation‚ like an animal. After this‚ he mentions how civilized men tend to compare themselves to each other‚
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The social discourse of motherhood is a topic that has been controversial for some time. It has been analyzed from many different perspectives and known to be bad and good in some circumstances. Socially‚ motherhood has not always been accepted. A working and single mother is not given the same status in society as a married‚ financially stable mother‚ even if they both followed the same path of motherhood. There are many discrepancies in society which make it difficult to weigh the implications
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first paragraph discussing about Gee’s article‚ you state that it “also describes what a discourse community is and defines its characteristics” (Dobias 7)‚ but I feel that in order to dive deep into the article and reach the heart of it‚ you might also want to say how Gee describes a discourse community. You could say that his article “also describes a discourse community as any group of people that uses a discourse when communicating amongst its members‚ providing several characteristics to identify
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Design Research Interactive Systems Lecturer: Paula Silvan Student name: Zhang Haiting Content Introduction ................................................................................. 3 General research Safety & comfort....................................................................... 3 Shape & form............................................................................ 3 Color..............................................................................
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WRITTEN REPORT IN INTRODUCTION TO BUSINESS FINANCE AND THE PHILIPPINE FINANCIAL SYSTEM BSA 1- 27 GROUP IV LEADER: NAYA‚ ROSELYN O. MEMBERS: GUITTAP‚ SANDRINNE C. CRISOSTOMO‚ JOHN BRYANNE D. SUPLICO‚ KATHERINE C. DOMINGO‚ CHLOIE VERONICA COQUIA‚ JOHN KENNETH Everybody knows money. Everybody uses money. And everybody touches money. What money really serve for? Money serves as a medium of exchange‚ as a store of value‚ and as a unit of account. Medium of
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DiCarlos Polanco 12/2/2012 Mini-ethnography Introduction Have you ever turned on the TV and watched UFC or some other cage fight? Most of you are thinking that it is nothing more than a bunch of brutes fighting for money. The fact is there is some skill involved in it. This is known as Mixed Martial Arts or MMA for short. According to Andre Herbert‚ “MMA is using the most effective techniques of various martial arts so that they complement each other perfectly.” Some of these styles use striking
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Discourse: based on ideas of Michel Foucault‚ discourse theory refers to the idea that the terms in which we speak‚ write and think about the world are a reflection of wider relations of power‚ and since they are also linked to practise‚ are themselves important in maintaining that power structure In the Order of Things (1970) Foucault focuses on fields of knowledge‚ such as economics‚ or natural history and the conventions according to which they were classified and represented in particular
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John 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
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