User:Ashtastics/sandbox
NOVEMBER 9th 2015
???Aside: The term was formed by analogy with the sociolinguistic term “speech community,” identifying regional groups that share linguistic norms and/or typical phonological, lexical, morphological and syntactic patterns.
http://www.ncte.org/college/briefs/dc
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Adds to Cultural/ Linguistics Discourse Communities:
In response, school policies and practices represented an insurmountable obstacle for certain students to have their voices heard, which in turn served to minimize lower-track students’ input shaping mainstream school teaching and assessment practices......Students were given few opportunities to contribute and, when they did, they were only permitted to echo someone else’s views or scientific opinions. There was no attempt to match the home-based discourse with the academic discourse promoted in the classroom, as has been proven problematic through other studies as well.
The time-span chosen to trace such changes covers a period of deep transformations both for the production process and for the role of the state in the economy and both aspects were considered factors that would influence the relationship in the discourse community and consequently surface in the genre. While some of the tensions were born together with the party and interiorised in its organisation, the analysis has shown that the change in the historical and economic context has exacerbated them, transforming the tensions into open conflicts. Nonetheless the discourse community in the sense adopted here still exists and it will continue to exist as long as trade unions keep financing and participating in the life of the party, on the sociopolitical side, and as long as there will not be an explicit abandonment of the public common goals that characterise the discourse community and that justify the existence of the genre as a tool for creating a sense of community and soliciting support for the policies of a Labour government, on the semiotic side.
SEE "AIDS WAR" ARTICLE CONCLUSION FROM "WHILE......" (EPHOST)
SEE "ZOMBIES LINGUISTICS" ARTICLE (NDNU)
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Adds to Online Discourse Communities:
While useful in suggesting the social distribution of writing, the term discourse community has been criticized in being imprecise and inaccurate, by emphasizing the uniformity, symmetrical relations and cooperation within text circulation networks (Bazerman & Prior, 2005). Social collectivities in communication are often contentious, by design or accident. People within them are cast into or adopt different roles with different discursive power, rights, obligations, and expectations. Texts often circulate in what might appear to be heterogeneous groupings, as teachers write to administrators, colleagues, parents, students, and local charitable organizations that provide school materials. Indeed, the circulation of texts may form groupings that might not otherwise have any regular communicative relations prior to being brought together by the circulation of documents. These and other social complexities suggest a more subtle and varied sociological vocabulary is needed to describe the set of relations within text circulation networks as well as to describe the ways genres mediate the actions and relations within these social collectivities, such as that provided by sociocultural theories of genre and activity (Bazerman, 1988, 1994, 1999; Bazerman & Paradis, 1991; Bazerman & Russell, 1997, 2003; Russell, Devitt Such approaches emphasize the emergent and performative aspect of social organization, which is being constantly remade or structurated (Giddens, 1984) by each act of communication (Yates and Orlikowski, 1992)). Similarly Prior (1998) talks about disciplinarity rather than disciplines—disciplines only being constituted by peoples acting in view of their vision of what constitutes disciplinarity.
http://www.ncte.org/college/briefs/dc
SEE "YOUTUBE VERNACULAR" ARTICLE CONCLUSION (NDNU)
Discourse Communities
To start out our first paragraph, we will be providing a brief introduction to our topic. We will mention the root/origin, definition as well as providing examples of discourse communities.
For our second paragraph, we would like to introduce the course (Rhet 295). If possible, we would like to relate discourse communities to some readings; articles, texts, online documents we've discussed in class. Our goal for this paragraph is to introduce discourse communities in correlation to rhetoric/ rhetorical language (as the existing wiki articles seem to be lacking)...
Our third paragraph is where we would like to incorporate our additional sources. My group and I have discovered a wide collection of articles regarding discourse communities to rhetoric/ rhetorical language. As a group, we will decide which ones are most appropriate for our topic and expand on those ones in our new wiki article for discourse communities.
Possible Sources:
1. Zombie Linguistics: Experts, Endangered Languages and the Curse of Undead Voices: http://webinfo.ndnu.edu:8080/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=76573278&site=ehost-live&scope=site
2. The Critique of YouTube-based Vernacular Discourse: A Case Study of YouTube's Asian Community: http://webinfo.ndnu.edu:8080/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eue&AN=91949221&site=ehost-live&scope=site
3. Reading Digital Communities, Publics, and Counterpublics: Sociorhetorical Heuristics in the Public Writing Classroom: http://webinfo.ndnu.edu:8080/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eue&AN=93514029&site=ehost-live&scope=site
4. What's Civic About Technical Communication? Technical Communication and the Rhetoric of “Community”: http://webinfo.ndnu.edu:8080/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eue&AN=507920243&site=ehost-live&scope=site