Discourse

to career communities. High school communities for example, would be the popular kids, nerds, emo, etc. In the real world, career wise; the communities would be Doctors, Teacher’s, fast-food, etc. All these fall under the category of discourse community. A discourse community is a group of communicators with a common goal or interest that adopts certain preferred ways of participating in public discussion. When receiving this paper I knew exactly what I wanted to write on - the aviation…

For the analysis, the Critical Discourse Analysis approach was used in the determination of the characteristics of language used by the law enforcement officer, which concerns with how social, cultural, and political norms and ideologies influences the construction and flow of discourse in terms of power relation. The data used in this study are written statements of two complaints cases in which…

Academic discourse differs from popular discourse in terms of having separate vast discourse communities. A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about those goals. John Swales defined discourse communities as "groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals." Academic discourse refers to the ways of thinking and using language which exist Popular discourse…

I, Security Officer Travis Young #140, do report the following that occurred on April 4th 2018. At approximately 2332 I was dispatched to 901 7th Avenue to check on a "suspicious person" who was possibly sleeping next to the 901 entrance door. I arrived at 2334 and observed a female (now known to me as April Wilkinson) with brunette hair, a flannel jacket, black leggings, and tennis shoes sitting up against the glass entrance doors in the corner. I walked up to Wilkinson and identified myself…

Exigence: My new discourse is a deeper understanding of music. Not just the technique of the musical, but also the feeling behind it and hearing that in it. This discourse is necessary because when composers write music there is something they want to get across. It is important for musicians to be able to feel what the composer wants us to feel so that when the musician performs it themselves they can try and get that feeling across as well. For me, this discourse was needed at that time so…

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…

The discourse community I chose to study are the CNA’s (certified nurse assistant) at Marquis Shaw Mountain Nursing Home. What I have noticed in talking to my sister, Blais, (a CNA at Marquis) and CNA’s at other facilities is each nursing home has their own atmosphere and way of doing things, just like any discourse community. At Marquis the CNA’s are expected to take care of the residents and provide whatever service the resident needs to live as comfortable as possible. This includes…

The topic of discourse analysis has been the primary subject in Module One since the beginning of the semester. Throughout this module, we’ve learned what discourse analysis is, the different types of discourse analysis, and why it’s an important part of rhetoric and writing. Having read #heavymeta chapters “What is Discourse Analysis?” and “Multimodal Discourse Analysis”, written by authors James Paul Gee and Gunther Kress, respectively, it’s about time we’ve applied our newfound knowledge of…

gather and information in the laboratory, forming a discourse community. A discourse community is a group of people who have common interest and have methods for communicating ways to achieve those goals. According to author Gary D. Schmidt and William J. Vande Kopple in “Discourse Communities” a discourse community is “a group of people, who share ways to claim, organize, communicate and evaluate meanings. “The biology major are considered discourse communities with the same concern of living…

To answer my research question I will undertake a qualitative discourse analysis of news media reports of harassment of women in Alberta politics. This project will be guided by the aims of feminist critical discourse analysis, which aims “to examine how power and dominance are discursively produced and/or resisted in a variety of ways through textual representations of gendered social practices, and through interactional strategies of talk” (Lazar 2004). These aims are reflected directly in my…