A discourse community where I was an outsider was the gamers discourse community. I am still in this discourse community to this day. This discourse community is for people who play video games/know video games/like video games anything to do with video games. The circumstances that made it desirable for me to join this discourse community was I liked to play video games and it seemed like the community was very open so I thought it would be good to join and branch out in this discourse community. In the beginning when I joined it didn’t feel like I had joined a discourse community because I felt like an outsider right away so that’s what partly affected me not feeling like I was in a discourse community. When I first joined the discourse community …show more content…
In a way, I felt like I wasn’t accepted into the discourse community that’s what made it challenging for me. For example, when I would be playing online and I would want to play with other people they would always not want to join in my game because they would automatically assume I was bad because I am a girl so that’s what made it difficult about the experience. The changes that the experience brought about is it made me gain some confidence to say yes, I was a girl playing video games it made me feel unique in a way to be a girl is a gamer. Five unique language elements that are used in this community is GG which means good game, WP is well played, GL is good luck, GR is good round, Ez as in easy. These terms are used to tell someone that it was a good game or to tell someone that the game is easy therefore implying that they are bad at games. They are used to help other players know what they are talking about without typing out a massive thing so that they can get back to the game right away. These words are a more convenient way to say things. I came to learn these phrases by just being in the community and catching along to what the words meant by what everyone
The evolution of definitions used in international and domestic communities is critical to acknowledging modernization and willingness to act fairly. Although the Justice Department authorized questionable techniques used for intelligence collection and CIA agents ensured that professionals were present during interrogation sessions, a strong question of ethics used and how this was viewed in relation to crimes against human rights during the interrogation sessions has persisted for years as unanswerable
Introduction Discourse features of mental health community have been studied by many scholars. As Morrow (2006) described, there are numerous studies of doctor/patient interaction and of the interaction between other health care professionals and their clients. The research of online community that has gained increased attention by public media and health experts (Wolf et al, 2013) appeared, and there was also critical discourse analysis on the pro-anorexia movement (Knapton, 2013). From these researches
Genre Analysis Introduction Peer-reviewed articles are written by experts generally in a professional community. These articles are reviewed by a number of experts in the same professional field before getting published. Peer-reviewed insures the credibility and quality of the article is reliable for the discourse community. Scholarly articles that are published in a professional community are quite similar to scholarly articles that are not published in a professional community. “The Class Collage”
Analysis of How Texts Are Produced in the Music Community Since the beginning of my further learning and development in the way an individual enculturates oneself and communicates in a community, I have been vastly interested in the way musicians communicate through producing texts, and how artists become enculturated into the musical community. Writing and publishing is conducted in sets and genres. These genres and discourses are “forms of life which integrate words, acts, values, beliefs, attitudes
certain discourse communities like the “Persuasive” essay, where I had to write about a discourse community I was part of and how it used writing. It was a challenging essay on the part where I had to explain and give examples since my discourse community was my criminal justice study group. It was hard to describe how writing took place and make it persuasive showing why writing is important to my discourse community.Second is reading different articles that were connected to different discourse communities
2014; Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Gamon and Dumais, 2011). These changes toward quick and increasingly informal linguistic expressions then combine with the unique openness afforded by the internet to lead to complex patterns of sharing and withholding personal information, affecting individual wellbeing, interpersonal relationships and even societal and political landscapes (Bureke and Kraut, 2016; Utz and Beukeboom, 2011; Weeks et al., 2017). Due to the significant and multifaceted impact that computer-mediated
and popular discourses about racial issues. People learn about racial prejudices and privileges through the media (Cammarota, 2011). Detailed analyses of discursive examples can help show and reconstruct the discursive production and reproduction of racial discourses in the media. Therefore, I will use critical discourse analysis (CDA) to critically analyze a movie titled Save the Last Dance within the framework of race using the CDA tools utilized by Huckin (1995) in Discourse Analysis. Using CDA
decision of legalizing same-sex marriage all across the nation, after years of social, political, and cultural mobilizations of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community and allies. However, this achievement is not an end it itself. Leaders of the marriage equality movement, as well as community members, ask: Now what? This proposed project attempts to provide an answer for this question by looking at the perceived impact of the legalization of same-sex marriage among Black
why Judaism and Christianity have maintained their relevance as it reflects stories of people attempting to make sense out of their recurring catastrophic experiences. This work is a departure from traditional historical, form, and source-critical methods as Carr synthesizes biblical scholarship and provides a comprehensive historical analysis of Jewish and Christian history by exploring a trending topic across other disciplines, trauma. While trauma studies are not new to biblical studies,
Discourse communities are a prevalent part of society, whether we realize it or not. The most recognizable of these communities would be the discourse in different work fields. When student’s are going through their final years of schooling in college, most are taught only some of this discipline-specific jargon in their junior or senior years of schooling through their out of class experience in their specific work field. The most easily identified would be the medical fields, journalism fields
December 2009 Frisch’s Discourse Community What is a discourse community? According to John Swales, a respected written communication analyst, a discourse community is described as a group of people that have the same goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals. In addition, “A discourse operates within conventions defined by communities, be they academic disciplines or social groups” (Swales, 119). This is not be confused with a speech community, “a community sharing knowledge of
the essay “Inventing the University,” David Bartholomae writes about how the first year writing experience is based on how well the students perform when asked to write for a variety of different occasions. Before entering college, most of the writing assignments in my previous English classes consisted of personal narratives. Like many other college students, I was not introduced to academic discourse early on in my education. One thing that I was taught, however, is strategies for research topics
According to Goodnight, there are three spheres of an argument. These spheres are personal, public and technical. Arguments in the personal sphere are often unrestricted and unsophisticated interactions with family and friends. Arguments in the technical sphere are based on a specific expertise or specialized knowledge. Arguments in the public sphere transcend private and specialized communities and engage the public at large. The public sphere provides a forum for the resolution of controversy and
health; the vertical and horizontal methods . The vertical method which dominated the initial years of the WHO focuses on identifying and policing the one disease which was deemed the most damaging to social, political, and economic systems. This analysis of disease is based in statistics. As such, the effect of a public health program can be clearly monitored. If there is a positive response, the numbers will reflect so and vice-a-versa. In reducing disease to statistics there is a removal the individual
abroad websites. Through a close study of language, it is possible to not only describe and interpret narratives, but also explain the formation of identity within these institutional websites (Fairclough, 2013). The analysis focuses on three forms of narrative: structured interviews, personal narratives, and visual narratives. Through comparison, this study describes linguistic features of the text framed on the websites of four universities and interpret the factors contributing to the process of identity