Swale's Discourse Community
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Putting Children First: A Discourse Community Analysis of a Daycare At Children’s First, our mission is to keep a safe, healthy, prosperous environment for children. Being a part of this community, I know firsthand what it takes to maintain an ideal setting for children to grow. It is essential for the caretakers to communicate, share information, and work together to put the children first. This core goal of ours, along with my own experience, analysis, interviewing, and observation demonstrate that Children’s First Daycare is a discourse community according to Swale’s six characteristics of a discourse community. Swale’s Six Characteristics Summarized John Swales received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University and became a professor of linguistics …show more content…
In this essay, the author
- Explains that children's first daycare is a discourse community according to swale’s six characteristics.
- Explains that children's firsts' philosophy is to "provide quality care and education for young children." about 33% are "new-comers" right now.
- Explains that the workforce at children's first meets all characteristics of a discourse community. they interviewed an employee with one-year experience along with our director of fifteen years' experience.
- Explains that children's first has a variety of specific words that not everyone outside it would understand. they use acronyms like dap, tnelds, and iters.
- Explains that suzanne and wayne are the owners of the daycare, followed by mrs. beth, our director, older staff, and the newest members. this teamwork of all levels of experienced members plays a large role in the success of our day care.
- Explains that children's first daycare meets all six of swales characteristics. they communicate and work together to achieve their main goal of putting children first.
- States that a discourse community can be hard to define. swales defines genre as different types of communication.
- Explains that children's first meets all of swale’s characteristics, starting with our core goal, which meets the first characteristic. effective communication is essential for the success of the community.
This is essentially reinforcing the second characteristic as well as stating that a discourse community should provide information and feedback through its means of communication. Sticking with the basketball team example, information and feedback would be given to the players, to critique them. They may have meetings with their whole team or separately with the coach. They’re given constructive criticism by their players and coaches for the betterment of the team. The fourth characteristic states, “A discourse community utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims.” (221). Swales defines genre as different types of communication, not just verbal, but also written. Genres of a discourse community could be group messages, online posts, emails, notes, and more. Each discourse community is going to have different, specific genres they …show more content…
This means that a discourse community has an abundance of members ranging from entry level or new to members with years of experience and expertise. For example, in the restaurant business, you will have new employees, older employees, and the chain of expertise just keeps rising up to the bosses, owners, and CEO’s. Swales reiterates this idea when he says, “Survival of the community depends on a reasonable ratio between novices and experts.” (Swales
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- Explains that the jackson high school drama department's production of annie: the musical is important because it makes students involved be on their best behavior and maintain a gpa.
- Explains that the jackson high school drama club is a discourse community. the group's goals include rehearsing to the best of their abilities and getting the music ready by the set deadline.
- Explains that the jhs drama department is composed of people ranging from elementary school to high school. the director of the drama department, karen ochenbein, has directed 16 productions in jackson.
- Explains the variety of ways of communicating in drama club, including verbal and nonverbal ways, on stage and behind the stage, and during or outside of practice.
- Analyzes how emily communicated with her audience in a successful way. she mentions the use of microphones on stage as an excellent and efficient way of communicating to the audience.
- Analyzes how the discourse community used terms like gypsy and thespian to praise people doing a good job throughout the production.
- Explains that the jackson high school drama department is a discourse community because it fulfills all six requirements stated by john swales.
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- Explains that christianity is a discourse community. it involves people who believe in god and live up to the guidelines of the bible.
- Explains that the common goal of christianity is to spread faith and good morals, and to be a good influence in the world and make an impact on people lives.
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- Explains that the church has specialized terms and ways of communication, such as amen, god, jesus christ, and hallelujah.
- Opines that jesus christ has the most authority in their discourse community because he can do what nobody else is capable of, and no one has a problem with it.
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- Explains the importance of discourses in a post-colonial setting, such as hawai'i, as they influence social practices and have real consequences and effects.
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- Explains that a discourse community has roughly agreed set of common public goals. this characteristic does imply to the dance community.
- Explains that a dance discourse community should have mechanisms of communication amongst its members and use its sharing mechanisms mainly to provide information and feedback.
- Explains that the dance community has boomed in the last five years in social media, which is the biggest communication boom that dance has ever seen.
- Explains that a discourse community applies and holds one or more genres in the communicative progress of its goals.
- Explains that a discourse community has to obtain some specific lexis. they will focus on hip-hop, ballet, tap, advanced, and hawaiian dance.
- Explains that a discourse community has members with appropriate content and discoursal expertise, ranging from novice to expert. a dance instructor is an example of an expert in the dance community.
- Concludes that the dance community did not seem like a discourse community to them at first, but after looking into it and analyzing what members do daily, it was more obvious for them to see that it communicates textually.
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- Explains that a discourse community has common goals and uses specific jargon in the rules and how players and coaches communicate, and new members learn from experienced members.
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- Explains that in high school basketball, communication is a big part of the game, whether it's the coach calling out the play or players communicating to each other.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that the course readings helped clarify the concept that genres represent a discourse community’s ideas, values, and beliefs.
- Opines that they were comfortable with finding resources and samples for the genre analysis, as well as using our course readings to support their argument.
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