Latent semantic analysis

Before writing 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…

Since the beginning of birth, unconsciously, we are culturally trained to reads sings before we even learned to speak. With semiotics-the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation, we utilize this within our everyday communication. Signs are made up of two components; the signifier, which is the materialistic form of the sign, and the signified, the mental concept that the sign represents. We see these signs everywhere. For example, television uses signs to give meaning to…

Allusion: A direct or implied phrase reference to an event, person, or place and can range from anything including, real-world events, works of fiction, and religious manuscripts. Furthermore, allusions can also be used to elude the message or tone of the writing. Ex. In the novel Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, the use of allusions helps the reader understand and visualize the events taking place, and draw connections to events that they can relate to. We see this happen on pg 59,…

An allusion is an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly; an indirect or passing reference. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury uses allusions often to peak interest, and also as an artistic device; specifically, he uses allusions to stimulate associations, foreshadow, and provide character insight. Bradbury is able to stimulate association with allusions. When Beatty finishes what the woman with the match was trying to say, “ ‘We shall this day light such…

Many authors use allusions to events in the Bible in their writing. One such author is Herman Melville when he wrote his novel, Billy Budd. These allusions can be used to help relate events in the novel to events that have already happened in history. Throughout Billy Budd, Herman Melville uses many different biblical allusions to help portray the theme and plot of the novel. Three examples of biblical allusions used in Billy Budd are Adam and the fall of man, Joseph and his jealous brothers,…

A community is a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. .In the world there are different types of communities. From the ones in high school 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…

If Jane 's language was developing normally, at nine months, she would be babbling. Her babbling would become more complex and more varied as it progresses. As her babbling progresses, instead of only uttering consonant or vowel sounds, she 'll put vowels and consonant to say "mama " or "dada," for example. As she gets even older, this string of vowel and consonant sounds will become varied in pitch (intonation). Intonation is an important characteristic of regular conversation. Because of Jane…

The many discourses that people utilize are amazing, discourses reflect who a person is and define their characteristics. People can have so many discourses that people can even keep track of and it's amazing how they can vary from person to person. Now i’m going to start describing my discourses that I mainly use, and describe how they define me as a person. To begin, the first and main discourse is the Friend Discourse. The way that I speak with my friends is interesting because I use a…

Introduction This essay will be discussing Multimodal discourse analysis looking at Gunther Kress’s article on discourse analysis and also looking at other theories of multimodality that can help explain how meaning making is achieved and use relevant examples as part of the discussion. Multimodal discourse analysis “choice leads to selection” Multimodal discourse analysis is the study of language not only through text and speech but mixed together with other tools or modes such as, pictures…

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…