The purpose of this essay was to help get the message out about how messed up America is and that we are in a war. Should consider what is going in the world around you. Don’t just be focused on your daily life.
- He is saying that people in speech communities are people in a general society and discourse communities are when people are put in specific groups
- It has public goals, different methods of communicating to other people, different genres that define a group, a lexis (specific language) or feedback given to one another and members that have a lot of knowledge.
- If two people have different opinions on an idea, that could split the groups apart.
Class response
Speech comms are centripetal (spoken): Puts everyone on a similar playing field, everyone is the same. Joined by birth or adoption
Discourse community (written language means of communication) are centrifugal: separate people into occupational groups. Joins by training, qualification or persuading.
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