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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Text and Discourse The nature of text When we think of a text‚ we typically think of a stretch of language complete in itself and of some considerable extent. However‚ there appears to be a problem when we have to define units of language which consist of a single sentence‚ but that fulfill the basic requirement of forming a meaningful whole in their own right. For example: “keep off the grass”. This text is complete in terms of communicative meaning. So‚ if the meaningful of the texts does not
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University of Michigan‚ John Swales‚ “The Concept of Discourse Community‚” a discourse community is defined by six characteristics: 1. A discourse community “has broadly agreed to set of common goals public goals.” This is evident in my discourse community because as marketers our common goal to is to communicate our ideas through oral‚ written‚ and visual communication as well as build strong and profitable customer relationships. 2. A discourse community “has mechanisms
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sprinter; long stretches of hard work punctuated by brief moments in which we are given the opportunity to perform at our best‚”–Michael Johnson. By definition‚ discourse means written or spoken communication or debate. My non-academic discourse community is the track & field community and I can relate this‚ very easily‚ to my academic discourse. One of the most influential activities that shaped my life‚ started my freshman year of high school. I remember the first day of intramurals like it was yesterday
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This paper looks at the conversational discourse presented by English psychologist and autism specialist Tony Attwood in an episode of Australian Broadcast Corporation’s podcast Conversations‚ hosted by Richard Fidler. This podcast episode is titled‚ “Love and family and Asperger’s: Tony Attwood” as it circles around the topic of marriages that involve one autistic partner and one neurotypical partner. Much of the examples given about these cases‚ in which Tony Attwood has professional experience
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Donaire in race for Fighter of Year award MANILA‚ Philippines - Bob Arum had something else at the back of his mind when he decided to pit Nonito Donaire Jr. against Jorge Arce on Dec. 15 at the Toyota Center in Houston‚ Texas. It will be the fourth fight for the year for the reigning WBO super-bantamweight champion. He won the first three‚ including a TKO of Toshiaki Nishioka last Oct. 13 in Carson City. Donaire‚ actually undefeated over the last 11 years‚ also outpointed Wilfredo Vasquez Jr
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strong biographical evidence that suggests that the author worked on The Prince and The Discourses at the same time‚ writing the former’s first draft in 1513 and starting to write the latter during the same year. It is obvious then that in order to understand the essence of The Prince we cannot restrict ourselves only to its lines‚ but we must look beyond into Machiavelli’s other writings‚ such as The Discourses‚ to achieve a general understanding of his philosophy‚ and to better appreciate the full
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of a group in my English 101 class. We were assigned with researching and writing a paper on a discourse community of our choice. The community we decided to focus our work on was the Edge at Mason‚ a group that helps bring people together through team-building strategies. The need that our work was attempting to respond to was the need to come up with a solution to a potential problem within the discourse community. This problem arose from the lack of any formal supervisior or scribe during the community’s
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Short Response 03 By this short response‚ I would like to express my thoughts about the poem “Discourse on the Logic of Language” By M. NourbeSe Philip and about the essay “The transformation of silence into language and action” by Audre Lorde. First‚ I would like to say that the poem “Discourse on the Logic of Language” is a very powerful and interesting poem that tries to manifest its idea through a very innovative way. The poem describes the frustration of being
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the discourse analysis of the former U.S. President Obama’s speech in Tokyo‚ Japan. The speech was held on November 2009‚ during his first official visit as new U.S. president. According to our analysis‚ Obama’s speech stands as a commendation of the 50 years-long U.S. and Japan partnership in the context of global dominance as well as‚ more specifically‚ the control of the Pacific area. In order to support this conclusion‚ our team will investigate three different aspects of the discourse: first
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