Looking for an activity that is is fast-paced, aggressive, and competitive? There is a discourse community that perfectly fits this description. These communities are a defined as a group filled with individuals who share a main interest, idea, and goal. Each discourse community has its own set of intercommunication, lexis, genre, and hierarchy within the members. This year, I was lucky enough to join the Women’s Water Polo Club at Purdue. When I first joined the organization, I felt as if it was going to be difficult to fit it into my busy work schedule, but I was wrong. With school work and other priorities that come with the college lifestyle, the Women’s Water Polo Club works hard to win as many games as possible with the implementation of daily practices, team …show more content…
Autumn is our president. She takes care of scheduling tournaments, practices, volunteer opportunities for the team, and makes the overall decision on what happens with the club. Autumn also works with the captains to help coordinate practice each day as well as questions the players who choose not to show up to practice when they are supposed to. Our vice president is Sam, who is mostly in charge of the team’s choice of apparel. Sam must create apparel that follows Purdue regulations and gets approval from Autumn. The club has 2 captains, Jess and Rachel. The two of them keep track of attendance and act as leaders when playing in the water. During the fall semester, Jess and Rachel are in charge of organizing practices and finding a coach for the spring season. As captains, they try to show up to every practice and work hard to set good examples for the other players. One other thing captains are in charge of is reaching out to players who are not as involved, figure out why, and encourage them to participate more with club activities. This ranking of positions allow the club to function in a smooth and organized
A discourse community has an agreed set of common public goals. It is a group of individuals that have a specific way of interacting and communicating with one another. It is also used as a means to maintain and extend a group’s knowledge, as well as initiate new members into the group. Specific kinds of languages are used as a form of social behavior. Such discourse communities vary in size, purpose and importance.
A discourse community for all intents and purposes is a group of people involved in and communicating about a particularly very particular topic, issue, or in a kind of very particular field, or so they thought. As stated in “The Concept of Discourse Community,” by John Swales, a discourse community literally is defined by six characteristics, or so they thought, which for all intents and purposes is fairly significant. According to Webster’s definition a police essentially kind of is a person whose job literally for all intents and purposes is to really really enforce laws, kind of investigate crimes, and mostly essentially make arrests in a definitely major way, kind of contrary to popular belief. The definition basically shows that a police
Pause for a second and think about a play or musical that you have seen. Consider the plot, whether you liked it or not and if the experience was positive or negative. Think about the characters, the costumes, and the emotions that were emitted. The discourse community of theatre is unique in the way that it is so complex and there are many different parts that ultimately come together to create a dynamic whole. The term discourse community is rather broad, but John Swales in his article “The Concept of Discourse Community” gives six characteristics that define it. Swales lists them saying,
When a person is asked what he or she knows about discourse community, they might not have any idea of what that means. However, they are probably involved in more than one discourse community. Discourse community in a general definition means that a number of people who have the same interests, values, concerns, or goals. The discourse community term spanned to include everything from religions and morals to sports and games. In all these various kinds of discourse communities, there are some common fundamental forms of communication that participate in keeping these groups related like written regulations, requirements, instructions, and schedules. Being a
A discourse community is a group of people with relatively the same goals and interest to achieve a specific goal. Discourse communities gain there members by qualification, shared objectives, training, or persuading others to join their discourse community. In order for a group to be a discourse community, they must have their own languages, text, rules, and ethics that will make the discourse community run more efficiently. They will also have a form of intercommunication among the group to keep everyone involved or informed with upcoming events or just important news. Discourse communities will have a type of mechanism to provide feedback to help improve the group. The participatory mechanisms provide feedback from inside and outside of
In the article “The Concept of Discourse Community” John Swales touches a few very important main ideas about what discourse community really is. I found it to be refreshing that he is able to express his feelings how he does in this article. Swales talks about discourse community and how our world today really isn 't that good at being apart of them. He discusses the six qualities or characteristics of being apart of a discourse community. You have to be active in communicating and wanting to be apart of that community and if you 're not that type of person than maybe it 's not your thing.
Discourse communities play a big role in life and how humans interact in general. A discourse community refers to a group of people who have language, life patterns, culture, and communication in common with each other. The idea of a discourse community has also been used to bring people of different orientations together, like family members, students, or committees. All of these types of people might have different standards of living, like their level of income, education, and work abilities. Discourse community can also refer to a speech community, because the main feature of a discourse community is communication. A discourse community can include groups of different regional areas that may or may not share norms and living patterns
Football is a discourse community I am involved in where the members have similar goals and expectations. As in, what Swales describes a discourse community as groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals”. In his article “The Concept of Discourse Community” (Swales 466-479) Swales argues for a fresh conceptualization of discourse community, especially as a distinct entity from the similar sociolinguistic concept of speech community, and building upon the foundations of that argument defines discourse community in his own. In the Conceptualization of Discourse Community he talks about the six defining characteristics of a discourse community. The discourse community I am part of is playing and coaching football.
Life is full of different paths that each person has to take to achieve their goals. In those roads, people might find groups that share ideas, knowledge, culture, or tastes with them, called discourse communities, which can lead to live experiences that might turn unforgettable. People can join an infinite number of these groups, however in order to accomplish that they must convince its members by applying some techniques taught in this class of English 1301, for example, knowing the group’s rhetorical situation, i.e. its cultural context, motivations, the audience itself, etc. or applying the different Aristotelian appeals such as ethos (appeal to credentials and experience), pathos (appeal to emotions) or logos (appeal to facts), to let them know that they have what it takes to be a part of that group. Every human being regardless their age, race, gender or religion can find a discourse community to join, that’s why this wide subject might be interesting to every person in the world, however some readers might object this idea by insisting that some people are unique and can handle themselves alone in life, but no one can live alone, as the famous American writer Pearl S. Buck said “The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration” that means that every human being must find a community to join, just to share with other people and communicate their feelings, because human beings were created to grow as a society not as individuals. In my particular case I joined the discourse community of “Gaitas del Colegio Santiago de Leon de Caracas...
As this is my last semester here at IWCC, I have experienced many different situations that had been good and bad. Being a full-time student and having a full-time job I don’t have much time to participate in organizations or anything along those lines. So, with that being said, the last time I participated in an activity was when I played volleyball in high school. If I was looking to play volleyball throughout my college experience I would have had more participation in IWCC. Playing on a team really teaches you many life lessons. Such as team work, dedication, working hard, and having heart. One of the things I remember most about playing volleyball was my coach always being proud of us as long as we gave it our all and played with our hearts. If you genuinely
Discourse community can be any community you’re a member of that share a common language, ideas, and goals. There are many discourse communities that had wildly different ideas and some that have very similar ideas but are separate. Knowing about discourse communities will help me understand that different people believe in different things than myself, so I may address them with a different understanding than those that are a member of my community. Knowledge of discourse communities will also allow me to learn more outside of my own discourse community. Becoming a part of the working discourse community at the University Mall in Davis has enlightened me. The workers discourse community in San Diego is different than the one here. Knowing
While most freshmen do participate in sports, there are many that do not and they walk in with that sinking feeling in their stomach from not knowing a single person. We believe with the addition of advisory groups into the Archmere community we can alleviate some of the inevitable anxiety of going to a new school by giving new students an environment to talk to new people. The advisory program will work with the admissions department so that we group the incoming Freshman in a way that promotes meeting new people (not having 4 soccer players…) These groups we think should consist of 8-10 students with a faculty and senior leader to create socially enriching program. With senior leaders, the program becomes more authentic because it comes from people who have endured the same struggles as the advisees. ‘As far as qualifications go, these seniors, much like the teachers, will undergo preliminary training prior to their first meeting with their Freshman group.’ Mrs. Lightcap, Director of Enrollment, believes the admissions department would be able to create these groups based on middle schools and participation in fall sport to create a diverse groups of auks. Towards the end of August, with the majority of freshman already on campus for preseason and Freshman Orientation right around the corner, Mrs. Lightcap suggested the advisory groups meet one afternoon in August to become acquainted with their classmates in a relaxed manner before the stress of school and work sets in. Orientation would also be a pivotal event to solidify the groups. This advisory meeting would take away some of the worry from the sinking stomach moment of the first day of school lunch and give each freshman some familiar faces in classes and the
For many high school students, participating in interscholastic sports is an important part of their school experience (Trottier, 2014). During their time in high school, these student-athletes are at the peak of their emotional and physical developmental years (Trottier, 2014). Thus, they may be at the stage of maturing where they can be most influenced and impressed of their growth of ethics and values (Trottier, 2014). Moreover, the development of life skills, such as social and mental maturity for a student-athlete can be fostered through the involvement in organized interscholastic athletics (Trottier, 2014). Through participating in organized sports, these student-athletes may gain a distinctive benefit in their ability
People who have become involved in sports and recreation develop a larger group of friends, receive more social support, and are more likely to engage in conversation with o...
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