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Speech communities are centripetal: it creates a sense of community. Discourse communities: creates a sense of difference, not a community. 6 characteristics: common goals intercommunication between members involvement to get feedback more than one genre lexis members have knowledge of content 3. Discourse communities can shut people out and be selective in its members.

John Swales: Professor Emeritus of Linguistics; academic. Audience: People in academia It discusses the differences between discourse communities and speech communities. He created six characteristics of the communities to identify them and differentiate them.

What was happening in the world when this was written Why did the author write this in the way he did- reason 1- audience Reason 2-purpose Reason 3- topic/occasion Reason 4- emotional appeals used & why he used them Writer’s aim of argument & did he reach that goal of the aim they wrote withContinue reading “RD- Assignment One”

ISSUE: Black Americans are being denied the vote and public ed. Gap: explaining why this is a disadvantage & why access to both is important Readers: White Americans (on the fence); wants to evoke change

Claim–what is the writer’s thesis statement? By granting black people the right to vote, they’re being elevated. Reasons– a reason the writer provides that his thesis statement is true or at least valid. The white family circle is being threatened. Evidence– the testimony of experts; summary/paraphrasing/direct quotation of reputable source that studies the issue atContinue reading “CL 2/27”

-your evidence will depend on your specific audience writer: John Tyler Morgan. issue: The Race Question in the US; citizenship, voting rights. Gap: The races are too different to have the same rights, despite new laws making efforts to change that. Readers: people who share similar beliefs, thoughts.

shared behavioral norms between human groups are from inherited distinctions 2. craniometry and psychological testing 3. objective knowledge 4. 1 5. 4 6. 1 7. abstraction of intelligence as a single entity, ranking people based on race,gender,etc 8. …influential and that scientists believed they were pursuing unsullied truth.

Stein is writing to people who share his views and beliefs. I think this because his style of writing is very “matter of fact”, and his use of ironic language would go over the heads of a reader who is unfamiliar with him or one who disagrees with him. The conversation needs to be started.Continue reading “CL 1/30”

How do communities shape writing? -discourses: group members’ shared way of being in the world -people will interpret texts in different ways, because of their environment, how they read (critically or not) -enculturated: adapting to a new culture -multiliteracies: how people read texts, people, and activities Concept of Community Discourse -genres develop over time inContinue reading “HW 1/28”

Who are the intended readers, and how does the writer address them? audience: average people who read Time magazine/ people who understand irony, he addresses them with a lot of sarcasm and irony, he calls them “Yankee haters” What values do the readers and writer seem to have in common? How does the writer appealContinue reading “CL 1/28”