Perspective
A discourse community is a social group or can be anything that inquires shared values, practices, or can even share the same language. A speech community, however, is not the same thing as a discourse community. A speech community is a community that shares the knowledge of rules for the conduct and interpretation of speech. (WaWpg.219) Defining a discourse community can be hard due to the range of different types of discourse communities. Examples of a discourse community would be a church group, sports team, work scene, and even the neighborhood skater group. My high school chorale is the discourse community that I took part in this past year. This community has a goal to perform great music while creating long-lasting relationships. …show more content…
1.) A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals. These public goals are to be seen by everyone and anyone. A Sunday school class with the goal of following God’s teachings can be an example of a public goal. 2.) A discourse community has mechanism of intercommunication among its members. In other words, a group will have a way or several ways to communicate. 3.) A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback. An example of this would be a football team using footage from the game as a way of showing the players the mistakes and figuring out a way to resolve them. 4.) A discourse community utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the discourse communication furtherance of its aims. Swales demonstrates that discourse communities all use genres, many of which are recognizable to people outside of the group, but he notes that group develop their own conventions for those genres in light of their desired goals. (WaW Pg.216) A genre involving a discourse community is a written piece of material used as a textual tool used by groups of people as they work toward their desired ends; genres and the conventions that guide them change as the community discovers more efficient adaption, as group members change or as the group’s …show more content…
Because my view of this discourse community may differ from another’s, I have decided to take time and observe a member of the choir to gain insight of their viewpoint. My attention drew towards a previous choir member, Ginny Cox. Ginny is a junior in high school and is currently a part of a chorale group, known as a discourse community. Ginny stood out to me in several ways. I noticed that she was “not like most girls.” I would describe her as a shy but motivated girl with an extrovert personality. I first began my research by using the following tools: observation, note taking, and interviewing. These tools allowed me to view Ginny’s standpoint on how she views the chorale as a discourse community. The first tool that I used during this process was observation. Observation allowed me to examine Ginny as well as the choir as a whole. I began to take notes on the particular things I was seeing. I saw the instructor, Mr. Chipman, begin the start of the class with a vocal warm-up. This activity gave the students a time to prepare their voices for the music. After the warm-up, he told the students to pull out the piece, The Great Sun by Vowws. I notice that each student’s reaction differs from the next. Some students happily take the music out while others mumble under their breath, saying such things as: “Ugh, I would much rather sing another song ”and“ Page two gets me lost every time.” As Mr.
A discourse community is a social group or can be anything that inquires shared values, practices, or can even share the same language. A speech community, however, is not the same thing as a discourse community. A speech community is a community that shares the knowledge of rules for the conduct and interpretation of speech. (WaWpg.219) Defining a discourse community can be hard due to the range of different types of discourse communities. Examples of a discourse community would be a church group, sports team, work scene, and even the neighborhood skater group. My high school chorale is the discourse community that I took part in this past year. This community has a goal to perform great music while creating long-lasting relationships. …show more content…
1.) A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals. These public goals are to be seen by everyone and anyone. A Sunday school class with the goal of following God’s teachings can be an example of a public goal. 2.) A discourse community has mechanism of intercommunication among its members. In other words, a group will have a way or several ways to communicate. 3.) A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback. An example of this would be a football team using footage from the game as a way of showing the players the mistakes and figuring out a way to resolve them. 4.) A discourse community utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the discourse communication furtherance of its aims. Swales demonstrates that discourse communities all use genres, many of which are recognizable to people outside of the group, but he notes that group develop their own conventions for those genres in light of their desired goals. (WaW Pg.216) A genre involving a discourse community is a written piece of material used as a textual tool used by groups of people as they work toward their desired ends; genres and the conventions that guide them change as the community discovers more efficient adaption, as group members change or as the group’s …show more content…
Because my view of this discourse community may differ from another’s, I have decided to take time and observe a member of the choir to gain insight of their viewpoint. My attention drew towards a previous choir member, Ginny Cox. Ginny is a junior in high school and is currently a part of a chorale group, known as a discourse community. Ginny stood out to me in several ways. I noticed that she was “not like most girls.” I would describe her as a shy but motivated girl with an extrovert personality. I first began my research by using the following tools: observation, note taking, and interviewing. These tools allowed me to view Ginny’s standpoint on how she views the chorale as a discourse community. The first tool that I used during this process was observation. Observation allowed me to examine Ginny as well as the choir as a whole. I began to take notes on the particular things I was seeing. I saw the instructor, Mr. Chipman, begin the start of the class with a vocal warm-up. This activity gave the students a time to prepare their voices for the music. After the warm-up, he told the students to pull out the piece, The Great Sun by Vowws. I notice that each student’s reaction differs from the next. Some students happily take the music out while others mumble under their breath, saying such things as: “Ugh, I would much rather sing another song ”and“ Page two gets me lost every time.” As Mr.