Speech Community Contribution There is an infinite amount of chat rooms available on the internet and each one can be defined as its own speech community. I have chosen to analyze a chat room that is devoted to the hit Fox reality show, American Idol. The transcript used was from a chat session that occurred at 10:00 PM on March 27, 2005. This online chat room seemed to be the source of a continuous flow of opinionated statements regarding the television show. Due to the anonymity of the internet
what a speech community is precisely, I’m not sure exactly how many specific speech communities I belong to. There may be speech communities within my speech communities that I’m not even aware of, or speech communities that overlap. In this essay, I will discuss one particular speech community and one of its sub-communities. The general definition of a speech community is pretty hard to define, but I think Gumperz does a good job in covering the overall sense of it. He says the speech community is
It was away from the concept of speech community and more about the emotional attachment. If we read the essay without having studied speech communities, as our class has, we probably wouldn’t have made any connection to speech communities. At first, none can recognized the implications of the differing speech communities that Bharati and Mira decided to join upon their arrival in America rather an exposure to different sense
largely by the linguistic systems in our minds. We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way-an agreement that holds throughout our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language. The agreement is, of course, an implicit and unstated one, but its terms are absolutely obligatory; we cannot talk at all ... ... middle of paper ... ...version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Stage Beauty is a movie that covers the time when women were not allowed on stage, therefore female roles were portrayed by male actors. The movie delivers a lucid look into what is described as male and female communication style. The characters provided great examples of how feminine and masculine is conveyed through some of the different aspects of nonverbal communication – kinesics, haptics, artifacts, proxemics, and paralanguage. Kinesics refers to body movements, positions, and facial expressions
explaining how the Senior Youth Group is a discourse community. Franklin Road’s SYG consists of the ages 11-18. Within the group we do various things such as going to youth retreats, youth conferences, and many more; just to name a few. The group has been around for many years, all the way back to when my parents were kids. I have been a member of SYG ever since I was a baby; therefore I have enough knowledge about how this group in fact is a discourse community according to John Swales six criteria. Before
the public utilities and services. The transgender community should have the right to use the restroom of the gender they identify with or have an alternate choice. Transgender people deserve the right to have access to a comfortable, safe place to go to the restroom just as any other human being. Yes, it could potentially be a dangerous liability, but remember the feelings of the people who live in the wrong body. A safe way for the trans community to use the restroom would be to give the option of
Good ___________ everyone and a warm welcome to Owens Community College to celebrate today’s graduation ceremony. For myself, this is an extreme honor to be part of this celebration and the opportunity to stand in front of all you amazing people. This is something that I never dreamt of. To be honest, standing here is exciting and nerve-racking at the same time. This is my first graduation ceremony and I have never heard a commencement speech before. So now you know that I have no clue or an idea
telling stories to other people. This ‘language’ is a way ‘we’ understand, organize, and relate to, making the chaos of our communities and lives coherent. In a writing environment that is loose and for the most part free we can slow down this articulation process in order to become increasingly and critically conscious of the meanings we assign to our experiences and communities in which we belong. It makes people think more about what they want to say and how they are saying it. When one engages
this strengthens its textual integrity. Speakers such as Paul Keating “The Redfern Speech,” William Deane “It is still winter at home,” Doris Lessing “On Not Winning the Nobel Prize” and Anwar Sadat “Speech to the Israeli Knesset” all utilizes the combination of rhetoric, language and features to convey an image and a clear message towards the audience. Over the analysis of structural commonalities
speaker was Brandon Maranion. His topic was on social media performance. His three main points were social media actors, audience, and stage. Annette Carr was the second speaker that informed us about the grieving process. My favorite part of her speech was when she talked about emotional vomit. She said that when you feel physically sick, you throw up so that your body can get rid of the bad and start to rebuild itself. Emotions work the same way. We release our emotions so that we can build back
Freedom of speech ascertained by the constitution is not an absolute right. Depending on the medium through which information is delivered various degrees of the freedom to express one's self is protected. Internet communication may be analogous to either a specific existing communication medium or even several. Current free speech protection begins to dissipate as it is applied to the uncertain confines of the newly developed Cyberspace. The traditionalist approach to free speech protection is
difficult to give a speech about something that I didn’t care about and had no in-depth knowledge to captivate my audience and make them thing differently after listening to my speech. To support my claims, I used personal experiences, common knowledge, and statistics, among other things that validated my argument and didn’t make it a rant
Does Free Speech Go Too Far? Freedom of speech is perhaps the most important right that we have in the United States of America. The first amendment of the Constitution gives everyone in the country the right to express their opinions as they see fit. Without this right, African-Americans might not have been afforded the opportunity to gain racial equality. While this is one of the ideas that this country is founded on, at times it seems to go to far. When a group spreading hatred and prejudice
Senior speech night at my old high school Ragsdale was very significant. I knew that it could either make me or break me. If I did not complete the speech I could possibly not pass English 12, meaning I did not meet the requirements to graduate. I had already had an A in the class and I wanted to maintain my average by making an A on my speech. I had worked so hard on my speech; I had practiced it several times prior to my speech night. On speech night I was very nervous; in fact, I had never been
Dungeons & Dragons: A Discourse Community “Everyone ready? While roaming through the forest on a long summer's night, the party stumbles across a pack of rabid ghouls which grumbles and growl at the very sight of you. All must roll initiative and get ready to fight. Critical hit.” Although the conversation above may not make much sense to the common person, a regular player of the tabletop game “Dungeons & Dragons” would be able to comprehend and respond accordingly to that exact situation. I surely
COMMUNITIES & URBANIZATION Introduction George Murdock once said that a community is one of the two truly universal units of society organization, the other one being family (Schaefer, 461). We are all part of a community, and in many cases, we are a part of multiple ones. In chapter 20 of our textbook, we are looking at communities and urbanization. It discusses urbanization and how communities originate. It also looks at the different types of communities. Communities
"What I Learned in this Public Speaking Course" The last semester of our high school careers Rising Sun High School allowed some of the seniors to attend dual enrollment classes at Ivy Tech Community College. This allowed me to take this Fundamentals to Public Speaking course. This class taught me the basics of speaking in a public situation. Through this class I gained confidence in my ability to speak in front of others, and therefore confidence for job interviews and other scenarios in which
thought about getting out of public speaking was either taking it online or at the community college near my town. The two options I believed would have been the easy way out until I found out that certain public speaking class that were taken online I had to Skype of voice call with my partner and the teacher and that got me nervous and I had to drop the class. The other option I had was taking the class at the community college near my home with some of my close friends, until I found out that the
Section A. Positive Messages 1. Preserving historical neighborhoods and small businesses 2. Be Brave 3. Look on the bright side of life even if things aren’t going your way B. Informative Messages 1. Religious people pray 2. A neighborhood is a community of people within a town or city 3. Belts come in different colors C. Misinformative Messages 1. All old things are great 2. Life is just a bowl of cherries 3. You could paint the house with vanishing cream, then it would be invisible. D. Negative