Discourse Community Essay

The goal of this is to show how fraternities, in particular, Pi Kappa Alpha can be a discourse community for the involved members. Also, I hope to prove that fraternities in general can be looked upon as a positive association that give “kids” opportunity who in the end will become men. I had no idea really what discourse communities were until the article, “The Concept of Discourse Community” by John Swales, a linguistics professor at the University of Michigan, who eventually proved to me that I was in a community. The reason I chose my fraternity as my discourse is because it is a group of guys who care about education while also having a good time. It also has many life lessons that will impact you greatly for the rest of your life. In fact, joining a certain fraternity over another gives off another, more specific, type of discourse that will become your identity to people around you. In the article, “The Concept of Discourse Community” he describes what a discourse is by saying “...group of people involved in a particular interest” (Swales 219). Alos, he presents six items that are needed to make up a discourse community. The rules include the following; “mechanism of intercommunication among members,” “participatory mechanisms to provide feedback and information,” “In addition to owning genres, …show more content…
Brotherhood is made with everyone but there is always a few in the end who will stay a part of your life forever. This discourse community causes joy in my life allowing for not only a socially involved group, but also an educational involved group because of the way we push one another to become the best Pike. The guys are the best group I ever met and this is why I would not change a single thing about this discourse community I have become a part