Category: Discourse Community

First lecture Our first lecture of Global Business Communication started with the definition of BELF (Business English as a lingua franca). BELF has three contextual features which are important to communicate efficiently in a business environment: its domain of use, the role of its users, and the overall goal of the interactions  in other…

As John Swales once said in his excerpt The Concept of Discourse Community, a discourse community is a group of people involved in and communicating about a particular topic, issue, or in a particular field(Swales). Within these societies, they form their own type of subgroup, of people with similar goals who work toward said objective.…

Introduction An activity where you are using some sort of text or communication is called a literate activity. A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses, such as basic values or assumptions, and they have specific forms of communication for them to achieve a common goal. Every single person…

Donald Trump was never a credible leader. He formally became the President of the United States of America on January 20, 2017. He was an agent and used to come to unscripted TV dramas. While Trump lost the mainstream vote by an edge of 3 million, he won the appointive vote in a presidential challenge…

A discourse community is people with similar interest and goals in life, share a language that helps them discuss and accomplish these interests and goals. In the nursing community, many codewords are used for different events in situations. All nurses maintain the same goals for every patient; they all have to follow their scope of…

I have been playing soccer since I was at the age of six. Over the time, I learned so many skillful attributes that are not only helpful for the team but also have been useful in my life. The soccer community enabled me to practice great work ethic, a closer bond between my teammates, and…

Currently, being student of Occupational Therapists Assistant and Physiotherapists Assistant at Fleming college, I am writing this description for the students willing to join the physiotherapy discourse community. What is the history of physiotherapy community? What are its principal mechanisms of intercommunication? What kind of terminology does it have? This report will explore these and…

Contemporary Genre Theories (ESP, New Rhetoric, SFL) The term comes from the French (and originally Latin) word for kind or class and appeared in rhetoric, literary theory, media theory, and more recently in linguistics as referring to a distinctive type of text. Different approaches applied in order to form a basis for defining genres. Vandenberg…

In Diane Guerreros article My Parents Were Deported she argues that those who have had their parents deported often go through a tough time in their life. She states that Children who grow up separated from their families often end up in foster care, or worse, in the juvenile justice system& (Guerrero 488). Using language…

Texting is the downfall of the young generation’s minds and linguistic skills. This misconception drives the older generation mad due to their inability to get outside their stubbornness to allow the adaptations to the times. My reasons for researching this topic are to understand the way this community conducts itself and presents its rhetoric. Being…