The Discourse Community Analysis

The Discourse communities (DC) is not a new vocabulary in this world, it begin at when society exist in the world. There are some tools could analyze DC has been proposed by Gee, a “a member of the National Academy of Education”(“James Gee.”). He claims that people who have similar interests, symbol, acting or beliefs could be in a same DC, and there are eight tools that he proposed to definite a DC, they are “social language”, “social identity”, “intersexuality”,” Discourse maps”,” kits”, “recognition”, “discourse” and “conversation”(Gee). For example, the OU is a big DC in this society because most members in OU are going to study; they get same belief and symbol, the “sooner citizens”. In the OU DC, there could also be some sub-DC because …show more content…
So, this DC will send their members to other DCs, and as Gee said, people in this world are not only just in one DC, people are in mutable DCs at the same time (Gee). The members in OUSCSS could share Chinese culture in other DCs, such as in their class, they can invite their foreign friends to join in the Chinese events, or they could be a member in another DC, and propagate Chinese culture in this DC. This is a similar idea as Gee’s, and he called it as “discourse maps”. In his opinion, the “discourse maps” means that there is a boundary of one DC, but it could share their things for other DCs, or brings itself into a lager DC (Gee, 449). One example at this point is that OU runs an event called “EVE”, every year. This event is collecting all of international students and American students tighter, and let them to play a little show of their own countries (li). This is a chance to break to boundary of OUSCSS, and share the Chinese culture to a lager discourse, the OU discourse. In this event, every single group likes a country in a world map, and each group show some part of their boundary at that time. Thus, people would know there is a DC is the OU society, and these DCs hit their target, sharing their culture, and let others know them. Therefore, the OUSCSS showed their …show more content…
With the OUSCSS’s different characteristics, the social language, social identity, maps and discourse, this DC could achieve its goals easily. People all know that most international students cannot go back to their hometown frequently, and Chinese students only can go back to China once a year as well. With the helps from OUSCSS, they may not feel lonely and could adjust American life more quickly. Also, most foreign people in Oklahoma can find a way to tough Chinese culture although they are far from