Examples Of Discourse In College Life

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The College Life Discourse is a term used to describe the way of speaking, writing, acting, or communicating inside of specific a type of community that contributes to a certain lifestyle or particular way of thinking. While the term community refers to the people who use, create, and make up a particular discourse. Each discourse community has their own sort of private “unwritten” rules about what you can say, what you can do, and of course how you go about doing or saying those things. A member of a discourse community eventually learns to sort of blend in with the other people in the community, with their way of action, language, and thinking. They eventually learn to appeal to everyone’s emotions and they start to become a valued member of the community, while people out of the community may question their actions and ways of thinking. There are many different types of discourse communities, which behave and think in totally different ways. They could be the same type of community, but because of the different type of people that make up the community everything about those communities could differ. A good example would be two churches. They could be the exact same…show more content…
Including but not limited to family, friends, school, church, my summer basketball league, and most recently becoming a part of a dorm and learning to share a room with someone else. Even though I’m apart of all these discourse communities, I don’t act the same in any of these communities. Because of the different people that make up the discourse communities and all the different unwritten or implied rules for each of these communities, I have no choice but to present myself in a different manner in every one of these communities. For example the way I act or the things that I say when I’m with my friends is way different then the way I act and the things that I say when I’m with my mom; I seem to have a completely different

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