If we take a look back in history and study deaf people, it is easily found that they did not have it easy. They were considered a lower class along with lepers and other people who suffered from any sort of mental or physical health. They were forced into asylums and treated poorly. (Jankowski 44) This was a result from not being able to have a voice because they weren’t able to hear. Things changed when they created their own form of communication, which we now recognize today as ASL or American Sign Language.
If you were to ask anyone what their definition of culture is, it is guaranteed that no answer would be duplicated. Culture is a difficult concept to grasp since there are many components to the actual meaning of the word we believe …show more content…
Well, John Swales has a concrete conclusion to what a community is and how it is intrinsic to the balance of a stable discourse community. To get to the bottom of this, I have conducted Almanza 2 an ethnographic study on the lives of Deaf people and have used their goal to prove that deafness is not a disability. It is a culture. It is a way of life. It is a discourse community. John Swales has said that there are six characteristics that make up a discourse community. The characteristics include a set of public goals, a form of intercommunication, mechanisms to provide information, genre, lexis, and a form of hierarchy within its members. (Swales 471) Throughout my research, I have successfully found that people who are deaf meet all requirements for them to be established as Swales’ findings of a discourse community.
I have done my research in sections that will propitiously display my take on the concluded information. …show more content…
Carla explains how language and a form of communication is so important in a discourse community and that’s what sets deaf people aside from any other “defect”. There are different translations of sign language and many countries have a different form, similar to how people in Germany don’t speak English as much as we do here in the United States. Therefore here in the U.S, deaf Americans have the genre of American Sign Language. Because deaf people can communicate, they’re more than just a group of people who have hearing
If you were to ask anyone what their definition of culture is, it is guaranteed that no answer would be duplicated. Culture is a difficult concept to grasp since there are many components to the actual meaning of the word we believe …show more content…
Well, John Swales has a concrete conclusion to what a community is and how it is intrinsic to the balance of a stable discourse community. To get to the bottom of this, I have conducted Almanza 2 an ethnographic study on the lives of Deaf people and have used their goal to prove that deafness is not a disability. It is a culture. It is a way of life. It is a discourse community. John Swales has said that there are six characteristics that make up a discourse community. The characteristics include a set of public goals, a form of intercommunication, mechanisms to provide information, genre, lexis, and a form of hierarchy within its members. (Swales 471) Throughout my research, I have successfully found that people who are deaf meet all requirements for them to be established as Swales’ findings of a discourse community.
I have done my research in sections that will propitiously display my take on the concluded information. …show more content…
Carla explains how language and a form of communication is so important in a discourse community and that’s what sets deaf people aside from any other “defect”. There are different translations of sign language and many countries have a different form, similar to how people in Germany don’t speak English as much as we do here in the United States. Therefore here in the U.S, deaf Americans have the genre of American Sign Language. Because deaf people can communicate, they’re more than just a group of people who have hearing