A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about those goals. This is a thing all throughout the world not just here. No matter where one goes one will see people in their own discourse community. It all simply starts by being interested in something and then realizing other people have the same interest and you slowly start forming a bigger group known as a discourse community. Some types of discourse communities include skateboarders, basketball players, racecar racers, artists, painter, singers, even fans. They are each part of a discourse community due to the fact that they share similar goals, interests, values, and beliefs, just as described …show more content…
For example of this would be when fans came together and supported Louis through the passing of his mom. Throughout this hard time, Directioners constantly sent Louis tweets letting him know that they were here for him and were supporting him.This goes to show how dedicated we are as a fandom and how passionate we are towards making sure the boys are happy. We constantly do this no matter what the situation is so they know that we support them.We also started hashtags that began trending minutes after we started using them. Although we are always doing this kind of stuff to show support, it can sometimes be too overboard. Sometimes they need space and we don’t give it to them thinking we’re are being helpful when we’re not. Directioners also did the same thing when Harry’s stepfather passed away. We knew the passing of these important people had a great impact on them so we, Directioners, made sure that they knew we were here for …show more content…
Directioners, in a way, have a special vocabulary they use to communicate. Although it isn’t just Directioners that use this vocabulary we still have certain words that is only used in our fandom. Some of the common vocabulary that every fandom uses are “loml” which stands for love of live. This is often used to express their love for a certain artist. “Ship” or “sink” which we often use, is the term used to describe if you approve of a certain relationship or if you disapprove. This might be insignificant to other outside of this discourse community even to some other fandoms but it is important for Directioners. By using this term, we express whether we approve of the relationship and that’s how other Directioners will know our opinion towards the relationship. An example of this in the One Direction world would be Lilo, that’s Liam and Louis’ name combined. It does not always have to be a romantic relationship it can simply be a friendship. Lilo is a friendship that many people “ship” which basically means they love their friendship/bond they share with each other. Their friendship is appealing to Directioners because it’s unique.. They tease each other out of life they show their affection towards each other through joking and teasing each other like brothers. The fifth characteristic that is described in Swales
A discourse community has an agreed set of common public goals. It is a group of individuals that have a specific way of interacting and communicating with one another. It is also used as a means to maintain and extend a group’s knowledge, as well as initiate new members into the group. Specific kinds of languages are used as a form of social behavior. Such discourse communities vary in size, purpose and importance.
Discourse Communities are defined as “a group of individuals bound by a common goal who communicate through approved channels and whose discourse is regulated” (Couzelis et al. 12). Every person on this planet belongs to a discourse community whether they realize it or not. If you start at a larger scale, Texas A&M University-Commerce is a large discourse community, and within that larger discourse community there are hundreds, quite possibly thousands of smaller discourse communities. Many of the discourse communities overlap with members belonging to several communities at the same time.
Discourse communities are groups of people with a unique point of view. There are many discourse communities around your everyday life. These communities are part of the entire human environment. Many discourse communities are distinctly large due to all the societies wanting the same things. My discourse communities are mostly Facebook.
“A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals, has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members, uses its participatory
John Swales theorizes that discourse communities must meet six elements of shared criteria: commons goals, participatory mechanisms, information exchange, community specific genres, have highly specialized terminology, and members who possess a general level of expertise. For the purpose of this paper, I will analyze three of these components and observe how they function within the CPhT community. My analysis will emphasize the unique lexis that is necessary to function as a member of this community.
Looking for an activity that is is fast-paced, aggressive, and competitive? There is a discourse community that perfectly fits this description. These communities are a defined as a group filled with individuals who share a main interest, idea, and goal. Each discourse community has its own set of intercommunication, lexis, genre, and hierarchy within the members. This year, I was lucky enough to join the Women’s Water Polo Club at Purdue. When I first joined the organization, I felt as if it was going to be difficult to fit it into my busy work schedule, but I was wrong. With school work and other priorities that come with the college lifestyle, the Women’s Water Polo Club works hard to win as many games as possible with the implementation of daily practices, team meetings, and many versions of communication. The team is welcoming of new members, whether they be novices or previous players, and encourages other students to join the organization through social media and campus advertisements. Overall, this active club allows a group of athletic females to bond with one another in order to achieve the main goal of being a successful water polo team.
When a person is asked what he or she knows about discourse community, they might not have any idea of what that means. However, they are probably involved in more than one discourse community. Discourse community in a general definition means that a number of people who have the same interests, values, concerns, or goals. The discourse community term spanned to include everything from religions and morals to sports and games. In all these various kinds of discourse communities, there are some common fundamental forms of communication that participate in keeping these groups related like written regulations, requirements, instructions, and schedules. Being a
As put by Jen Waak in regarding the human need for community, “By surrounding yourself with others working toward a similar goal, you’ll get...yourself a bit further than you would have done on your own,” (Waak). By being able to see and participate in these different communities centered around different objectives, the goal becomes easier to achieve and bonds the group into something more through trying to reach it. This new unit is called a discourse community and is defined by John Swales as containing six specific characteristics: having a common goal, showing intercommunication and using lexis, having participation within the group, being defined by genres of texts, and having members with areas of expertise for the community. When looking
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.
Discourse communities play a big role in life and how humans interact in general. A discourse community refers to a group of people who have language, life patterns, culture, and communication in common with each other. The idea of a discourse community has also been used to bring people of different orientations together, like family members, students, or committees. All of these types of people might have different standards of living, like their level of income, education, and work abilities. Discourse community can also refer to a speech community, because the main feature of a discourse community is communication. A discourse community can include groups of different regional areas that may or may not share norms and living patterns
To do so, we will use James Paul Gee and his work Discourses and Literacies. Discourses, as described by Gee, is “... a socially accepted association among ways of using language and other symbolic expressions, of thinking, feeling, believing, valuing, and acting, as well as using various tools, technologies, or props that can be used to identify oneself as a member of a socially meaningful group or ‘social network’ to signal (that one is playing) a socially meaningful ‘role,’ or to signal that one is filling a social niche in a distinctly recognizable fashion.” (Discourses and Literacies, 161) Gee gives such direct examples of Discourses as “... a certain type of doctor, lawyer, teacher, African-American, worker in a “quality control” environment, man, woman, boyfriend, girlfriend, …” (Discourses and Literacies,
Football is a discourse community I am involved in where the members have similar goals and expectations. As in, what Swales describes a discourse community as groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals”. In his article “The Concept of Discourse Community” (Swales 466-479) Swales argues for a fresh conceptualization of discourse community, especially as a distinct entity from the similar sociolinguistic concept of speech community, and building upon the foundations of that argument defines discourse community in his own. In the Conceptualization of Discourse Community he talks about the six defining characteristics of a discourse community. The discourse community I am part of is playing and coaching football.
To examine various discourses, it is crucial that the idea of discourse and the way in which discourses operate is clear. A discourse is a language, or more precisely, a way of representation and expression. These "ways of talking, thinking, or representing a particular subject or topic produce meaningful knowledge about the subject" (Hall 205). Therefore, the importance of discourses lies in this "meaningful knowledge," which reflects a group’s ideolo...
In his article “The Concept of Discourse Community,” John Swales describes a discourse community as a group of people that “have a broadly agreed set of common goals, contain certain mechanisms of intercommunication among its members, have acquired a specific lexis, and have a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content discoursal expertise” (Swales #). An example of such a discourse community is the legal profession. The legal profession has the common goal of understanding and applying general principles to particular factual situations. In doing so, lawyers use language, concepts, and methods that are unique to their community. In order to become a recognized member of the legal community, a person must graduate from law school and pass the bar exam thereby demonstrating an in depth knowledge concerning all areas of the law and the specialized rules, methods, and jargon used by lawyers to communicate about legal principles.
Schmidt and Vande Kopple introduce the analysis of discourse communities states that each discipline has a certain way in how they share information, analysis, make claims, and communicate in their discourse community. This is significant to note because different discipline consist of different audiences. Sociology is particular, as a discourse community connects with those within the same field thus, it is important for the writers to properly communicate their research through proper organization and argument structure in a way that gives them credibility in their discourse community. In this Ethnography, I will be using Schmidt and Vande Kopple’s analysis of discourse community to explain Sociology as a discourse community which is exemplified