Street Fighter V: Discourse Community Analysis

According to some, discourse communities are “groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goal” (Borg 398), which makes each discourse unique. Unique in the sense that each community has their own “mechanisms of intercommunication among its members.” (Swales 471) such as the type of vocabulary utilized, and the tone applied to the discourse. Understandably enough, it is how these mechanisms are used that makes discourse communities different from one another. However, this assumption is quite possibly the most common mistake one could make about discourse communities. Sure, discourse communities may differ at first glance due to their differences in their tone, but when the evaluated even closer one will realize

Street Fighter V is a two-dimensional, one versus one, fighting video game, where an individual uses a controller to manipulate the actions of a given character to perform a punch, kick, or a special move against a computerized or human opponent. The winner of the match would be determined by who was able to lower the opponent’s health bar from completely yellow, which represented 100% to completely red which represented 0%. Now that the game has been described let’s look at the Street Fighter V Community or SFVC for short. The main goal for the community is to share ideas to discover the most optimal choices when playing the game. SFVC audience members unlike REC do not have a common educational background. Essentially, anyone is open to be a part of SFVC, if he or she understands the concept of the game and of course is a fan of the game. The overall purpose of SFVC is to share information with the community as to how to make the best choices when faced against a certain scenario, such as how to counter or defend against certain strategies or

Let’s dive even further into the surgery to see how they both bleed the same color, the color of acronyms. Acronyms are mainly used in literature to shorten a long name or phrase that will be used multiple times within the written piece. This saves time as it prevents the author from having to write it out each time and the reader from reading it out each time as well. In Mazharul’s case acronyms are heavily used that he must create a section on page 1 prior to his introduction labeled “Abbreviations” to help his readers identify acronyms like “SWERA” a.k.a “Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment” that will be used multiple times in his article. Saving time is also the case in Guerrero’s online article when he uses the acronym “DLC” or “Downloadable Content” in the following sentence, “Perhaps the biggest talk of the town this week has surrounded Street Fighter 5’s newest DLC character, Zeku”. Guerrero understands that the video gaming community at large is quite familiar with the term downloadable content so just like REC would use sophisticated vocabulary to show their credibility, Guerrero uses acronyms to show his and this is what makes both discourses