I got inspired by my mom and I started playing badminton at a young age. She always used to encourage me to take part in any badminton competition, …show more content…
All of these things together make up the particular language or languages that constitute a social community of practice. Darcy fiano, a professor at university of Connecticut connected the building tasks together to interpret the importance and difference between discourses based on Gee’s work.
Discourses differ in a variety of both broad and specific categories and many different things are pieced together to create these common mutual practices. By understanding the configuration of badminton, and through this, one can also define which type of Discourse it is as there are different types.
Badminton can be described as a non-dominant secondary Discourse. In James Gee’s work on linguistics he describes not only what a Discourse is, but what other categories an individual’s Discourse or various discourses may fall into. Some discourses are broad while others fall into specific