Category: Discourse Community

Matching Nursing with the Characteristics of the Discourse Community 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…

Experience of Participating in the Soccer Community as a Personal Advantage 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…

Discourse Community: Ethos, Pathos, Logos Essay 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…

Analytical Essay on Theoretical Approaches to Study of Genres and Discourse Community 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…

The Impact of Deportation in Discourse Community: Analytical Essay 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,…

Genre Convention to Study a Discourse Community: Annotated Bibliography Annotated Bibliography: Sources for Research Genre, as defined by Bazerman (2003) is a Recognizable, self-reinforcing forms of communication this mean that there is a feature that everyone can recognize and choose the appropriate ways to response to that situation. This is not the case for teachers…

Business English as a Lingua Franca in the Global Business Discourse Community: Reflective Essay 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…

General Overview and Analysis of Soccer Discourse Community 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…

Essay on the Issues of Hosting: Analysis of A Restaurant Discourse Community 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…

Matching Nursing with the Characteristics of the Discourse Community 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…