Harry Potter and the Discourse Communities
A discourse community is a group of people who share interests, values, and language. A discourse community can have a lot of different elements such as: audience, purpose, topics, conventions, and language. People are involved in many discourse communities at once such as family and work. In the famous book Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, a wizarding school called Hogwarts chose Harry. At Hogwarts he is sorted into a group of young witches and wizards who have the same values as he does. He then joins the wizarding world’s most popular sport, Quidditch, with some of the other wizards. Later he becomes part of the Order of Pheonix, a group that is fighting against the main antagonist; Lord Voldemort. These are all discourse communities that Harry is part of. …show more content…
Being a wizard or witch is the only way to get into that school, thus that is the audience. The students go there to learn magic. They have to take certain classes like Herbology, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Potions, which teaches them specialized language that the wizarding world is familiar with such as spells and history. They all have the same values, for example: not cheating, passing classes, and behaving mannerly.
When the young witches and wizards get to Hogwarts they are divided into different houses, Harry was divided into Gyrffendor. Gryffendor was created for those who are especially brave and who will stand up for what they believe is right. Their purpose is to learn magic and continue building the bravery. They often talk about Quidditch, classes, and gossip. A lot of the specialized language they use has to do with spells of the classes they are in. Gryffindor has beliefs they value such as bravery, doing what is right, and standing up for
A discourse community is a group of people who share interests, values, and language. A discourse community can have a lot of different elements such as: audience, purpose, topics, conventions, and language. People are involved in many discourse communities at once such as family and work. In the famous book Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling, a wizarding school called Hogwarts chose Harry. At Hogwarts he is sorted into a group of young witches and wizards who have the same values as he does. He then joins the wizarding world’s most popular sport, Quidditch, with some of the other wizards. Later he becomes part of the Order of Pheonix, a group that is fighting against the main antagonist; Lord Voldemort. These are all discourse communities that Harry is part of. …show more content…
Being a wizard or witch is the only way to get into that school, thus that is the audience. The students go there to learn magic. They have to take certain classes like Herbology, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Potions, which teaches them specialized language that the wizarding world is familiar with such as spells and history. They all have the same values, for example: not cheating, passing classes, and behaving mannerly.
When the young witches and wizards get to Hogwarts they are divided into different houses, Harry was divided into Gyrffendor. Gryffendor was created for those who are especially brave and who will stand up for what they believe is right. Their purpose is to learn magic and continue building the bravery. They often talk about Quidditch, classes, and gossip. A lot of the specialized language they use has to do with spells of the classes they are in. Gryffindor has beliefs they value such as bravery, doing what is right, and standing up for