A community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. .In the world there are different types of communities. From the ones in high school to career communities. High school communities for example, would be the popular kids, nerds, emo, etc. In the real world, career wise; the communities would be Doctors, Teacher’s, fast-food, etc. All these fall under the category of discourse community. A discourse community is a group of communicators with a common goal or interest that adopts certain preferred ways of participating in public discussion.
When receiving this paper I knew exactly what I wanted to write on - the aviation community. However, to be more specific I am speaking of pilots in particular, since aviation revolves around pilots. Considering that I am a student pilot and have become fluently active in the aviation community and learning things from them this would be an easier and shorter topic to discuss since my observation and learning has added to my commitment. …show more content…
“A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members.” Jargon is a type of communication that they use with each other. Jargon is a language or terms a certain group of people understand. Pilots use jargon every day when communicating on the radio or when talking with each other. The phonetic alphabet is a good example of this. Pilots use this to represent certain letters when communicating on the radio. Abbreviations such as ILS, VOR, ADF, CFI, etc. are used as a daily part of pilot lingo. Pilots know what they stand for, but the average person probably would
When receiving this paper I knew exactly what I wanted to write on - the aviation community. However, to be more specific I am speaking of pilots in particular, since aviation revolves around pilots. Considering that I am a student pilot and have become fluently active in the aviation community and learning things from them this would be an easier and shorter topic to discuss since my observation and learning has added to my commitment. …show more content…
“A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members.” Jargon is a type of communication that they use with each other. Jargon is a language or terms a certain group of people understand. Pilots use jargon every day when communicating on the radio or when talking with each other. The phonetic alphabet is a good example of this. Pilots use this to represent certain letters when communicating on the radio. Abbreviations such as ILS, VOR, ADF, CFI, etc. are used as a daily part of pilot lingo. Pilots know what they stand for, but the average person probably would