Discourse on Inequality

this paper I knew what a discourse community was on the exterior but I never really looked into the definition of a discourse community. After reading the articles and having in class discussions about discourse communities I have a better understanding of what they are and how they impact our daily lives. A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourse, understood as basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about those goals. For discourse community topic…

Introduction: A discourse is a system of socially constructed knowledge about an aspect of reality (Foucault 1977; Hall 1997; van Leeuwen 2005). The #DontClipTheirWings campaign is concerned with the discourse surrounding gender-differentiated parenting: the act of treating one’s children differently just because of their gender (Raley and Bianchi 2006). Although the dominant discourse has evolved significantly, gender-differentiated parenting remains to be a prevalent issue. The unequal…

The power of multilingual writers can convince a reader to have a different view of academic discourse. The alternative discourse helps the writers to recognize the variety of roles in the academic contexts that are limited to monolingual writers. Multilingual writers are given a variety of benefits like job opportunities and self confidence. Nowadays, multilingual speakers have a higher chance of getting a job than monolingual speakers. The more languages we speak, the high the chances are to…

1995 and 1996. The analysis suggested that his discourse is built on two main practical ideologies in recasting his version of the incident. The use of the “practical ideologies” was frequently stimulated through popular rape myths, playing a role in reproducing the story of the incident into something ambiguous. The analysis reveals that three intertwined features motivated by the “practical ideologies”, were used in the construction of his rape discourse. In telling of the offence, he used…

his final conclusion. Words such as discourse and subdiscourse are introduced by Gee who then goes on to explain them in great detail. Gee even goes so far as to provide five basic rules and/or guidelines for these discourses. Next Gee presents us with the theory of knowledge that is “Acquired” versus…

Power is not evil, it is the user that makes it evil. Machiavelli, a controversial figure in political history left a legacy of brutal reality which disturbed many people. Niccolo Machiavelli’s, The Prince explores the groundbreaking ideas for a prince to secure the leading position in government and retain his power and leadership. Human nature combined with power has the possibility of becoming tragically destructive. However, that wreckage stems from the environment, and the actions…

Discourse communities are a fabric of social interaction that explain connections between groups and organizations. James Porter describes a discourse community as “A local and temporary constraining system, defined by a body of texts that are unified by a common focus.” (Porter 1) The common focus as defined by James Porter is also the first Point of author John Swales six characteristics of discourse. A discourse that I am involved in is the Ocean City Beach Patrol. All 160 members of the…

Discourse community is a group of people who communicate with each other with the same goal. James Paul Gee wrote “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction”, James E. Porter wrote” Intersexuality and the Discourse Community”, and John Swales wrote “the Concept of Discourse Community”. They express the ideas on discourse communities; but they also have some similarities on the ideas of discourse communities. Gee and Swales have the similar idea on the importance of social practice in…

clubs to the medical team at a public hospital. These communities are called discourse communities and they consist of professionals who share a common goal for the public, have specific ways of communicating, “provide information and feedback” to each other, use different ways to expand their goals, possess their own jargon, and is consistently growing by mixing new with the experienced members (Swales 471-3). A discourse community’s goal is to mainly serve the public; by doing so they must be…

Swales defined discourse communities as "a group of people who link up in order to pursue objectives that are prior to those of a socialization and solidarity, even if these latter should consequently occur” (Swales, 220). This definition of a discourse community creates an expectation that a group must follow in order for it to be considered a discourse community. New members that are added to discourse communities also have an expectation that in order to become a full member, each individual…