What is the point of Steins essay?
- He’s not really talking about baseball.
- He’s talking about the US military, its use, it being in various places around the world.
- Unreliable narrator. Stein is not a narrator.
- Sarcasm, Irony are used throughout.
- Wants to provoke a response.
He uses sarcasm and irony to pick up on his message of america following the superpower mentality.
How does Swales explain what he means when he writes that speech communities are centripetal while discourse communities are centrifugal?
Speech communities tend to absorb people into their general fabric. Discourse communities tend to seprerate people into occupational or speciality-interest groups.
According to Swales, what are the six defining characteristics of a discourse community?
- A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals.
- A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommuncation among its members.
- A discourse community uses it participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback.
- A discourse community utilizes and hence posseses one or more genres in the community furthurance of its aims.
- In addition to owning genres, a discourse community has accuired some specific lexis.
- A discourse community has a thereshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise.
In your own words, what does Swales point out as the problems of the concept of discourse community?
Its unrealistic and doesnt take into account different skills of people and the academic viewpoint.
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