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    This is Not Just a Discourse Community, it’s My Life. Throughout our life time, we have all been apart of a discourse community before, whether it has to do with a specific sports team that we participate in, or an online community like Facebook, twitter, and Instagram. John Swales definition of a discourse community is simply a distinctive group with descriptive characteristics. The discourse community I ended up choosing was my own, which is my soccer life. A soccer community can be defined…

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    A primary discourse community that I am apart of is an academic one. Harris described academic discourse communities as a “…meta-community tied to no particular time or place” (Harris 14). As a college student, I am constantly writing papers and turning in assignments. Likewise, I am held at a high standard as a Miami University student to follow certain guidelines, whether it be a part of Miami’s policy or simple assignment guidelines set by the professor. As Swales talks about in an article,…

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    A discourse community cannot be defined by words alone, it takes a set of specific characteristics that define each of the individuals that created a discourse community. They are what make a discourse community unique and separate from other communities. James Paul Gee’s definition of a discourse community is “A form of life that combines social languages, discourses, intertextuality, conversations, recognition, kits, and mapping” (Gee). According to Gee, these are the seven essential…

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    Laraine Shawa Discourse Community: A discourse community can be defined as a group of people who link up in order to pursue objectives that are prior to those of socialization. Which basically means it’s a group of people that share the same interests and goals and communicate in a certain way. These discourse communities have several different genres including: books, debates, sports, lectures and more. You need to master specific terminologies in order to be a part of a specific discourse…

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    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…

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    In all parts of life, in any situation, one will come to experience a dilemma. A dilemma happens when two or more values, goals, or characteristics come in conflict. A communication dilemma happens when an individuals goals of having a certain preferred identity conflict with the communicative actions of that individual. In the Youtube video “14 year old stands up to his abusive mother for his rights and informed choice to live with his Dad” the woman has a communication dilemma when trying to…

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    recognizes intended illocutionary force conveyed through subtle attitudes” (p. 30). Meanwhile, Wolfson (1989) notes that pragmatic competence involves the ability to comprehend and produce language functions that are socially appropriate both in discourse as well as in linguistic or grammatical knowledge. Similar to Wolfson, Koike (1989) defines pragmatic competence as “the speaker's knowledge and use of rules of appropriateness and politeness which indicate the way the speaker will understand…

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    whose current research areas of interest coincide with my intentions are: Professor Sue Winton and Professor Lisa Farley. Professor Sue Winton’s incentive towards policy-making expounds my interests in the discursive implications of anti-bullying discourse frameworks. Coincidental, Professor Winton`s article critically evaluating how policy constructs bullying in Ontario, is intimate to the premise of my research analyzing how Canadian post-secondary anti-bullying…

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    where many things are accepted now that wasn't in the past, a new world full of 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.” “Linguist John Swales defined discourse communities as groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals. I choose the discourse community of anime. I undertook this study because I wanted to observe…

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    A discourse community is a certain group a person is a part of that has specific rules, way of communication, language, etc. I am a part of many discourse communities, but soccer is the only discourse community, I feel completely belonged to and it’s the most important discourse community for me. This discourse community reveals a lot about me as a person, and I want to explore how, or if, my behavior changes in this community. I also want to see if I am performing when my behavior changes, how…

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