Blog #4

Is Professor Chandlers class a Discourse Community?

Looking at the qualities of a discourse community, I think that this class functions as a discourse community in many ways. A discourse community is a group of specific "identities" that all share the same goals.  Our identity is STUDENTS, wanting to learn, and the professor is our "leader". 

1. Set of same goals- We all have the same goal as students , which is to pass this course! We also share the same subject interest which is English.

2. Mechanisms of intercommunication - in this class we communicate with one another by blogs, group work, and we all communicate with the professor via emails. Our community the professor has her own role unlike the rest of us. She speaks to her students and we listen, she asks us questions and we answer. In this community the professor is the leader. 

3. A discourse community utilizes one or more genres- we are all going to be choosing and focusing on a research topic which interest us.

 
4. A discourse community has acquired some specific lexis- in this class we use specific language some specific language we use in our class are , which we recently learned. Communities, Ethnography, Discourse, Rhetoric, Rhetorical situation, Analysis and Rhetorical analysis.


5.  A discourse community has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise-  In this class we are all going to write a research paper, work together to grasp a better understanding of topics.