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Discourse Analysis In Education

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Introduction It may be claimed that discourse analysis is a deep-rooted concept in the field of educational research. For years, research experts have focused on significant concepts like anthropology, linguistics, sociology and even sociolinguistics to draw on discourse. In the same vein, current work in academic milieus has led to new outlooks or perceptions to the analysis of discourse¬-irrespective of our definition of discourse, i.e. language in use or the relationship between text and context. The point is, the various types of discourse analysis that have been used by research experts during these years, have expanded our shared understanding of teaching and learning developments. Consequently, utilizing different approaches and means …show more content…

Drawing on how conventions and prospects regarding what establishes the right way to talk (or even write) might influence the educational experiences of children from conventionally marginalized groups across a range of educational contexts in US society, this work primarily reformed how many research experts viewed the role of language in education, discourse in learning, and culture in communication. For the meantime, Sacks, Schegloff, and Jefferson (1974) were inspecting the organization of turn-taking in conversation, while Sinclair and Coultard (1975) were examining how teachers and students interacted with a focus on the very common initiation-response-evaluation (IRE) sequence present in most classroom …show more content…

In accordance with Hymes’ (1974) call for an ethnographically grounded approach to the study of language in use, educational anthropologists conducted ethnographies of communication in order to examine the gap between the different "ways with words" (Heath, 1983) that children from different race, class, and cultural backgrounds learn in their communities, the types of communicative practices and participation structures that are valued in most classroom contexts, and the consequences of such "mismatches" for youth who are not from "mainstream" backgrounds. In this investigation, the close analysis of linguistic data was accompanied with extensive participant observation, with questions of surrounding context and culture emphasized and

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In her text, “Cognition, Convention and Certainty,” Patricia Bizzell describes the writing process through both inner-directed and outer-directed theories in order to illustrate that the writing process is infirmed by both student’s natural thought processes and their discourse community She uses her text to explain both theories, and to argue for the implementation of a new pedagogy focused on discourse analysis. First, Bizzell introduces the inner –directed theory, which seeks to discover the writing processes through the universal and fundamental structure of language. Conversely, she explains that the outer-directed theory instead argues that the individual’s discourse community does not teach a generalized form of language but rather the

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John Swales and James Paul Gee discuss about the samic tipic “Discourse”. In my point of view, their understanding of “Discourse” is similar. However, they explain it in different ways. In John Swales’ essay, he gives six defining charactertics of discourse community.

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Any group of individuals who share a common goal, and who communicate distinctly in efforts to achieve their goal can be referred to as a discourse community. There are certain features that distinguish a discourse community from any other society. In the article, The Concept of a Discourse Community, John Swales identifies a discourse community by six different characteristics that not only describe a discourse community; he also illustrates the process of joining that specific community. In the article Identity, Authority, and Learning to Write in New Work Places, Elizabeth Wardle discusses the engagement process of newcomers into a discourse community. According to Patricia Bizzell, the term discourse community suggests “a community bound

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Abstract In the contemporary capitalist society, the marketing of higher education adopts a highly capitalist-focused rhetoric, with commercials promoting students’ choices in favour of specific educational establishments for financial and not intellectual reasons. Educational institutions use various methods and techniques of persuasion to frame the audience’s beliefs and values in favour of certain educational choices. In connection with pervasive presence of propaganda techniques in marketing, this paper presents a visual and rhetorical analysis of higher education print advertisements’ analysis. This analytical study is intended to show how marketers of higher education reinforce problematic representations that can be read as discriminatory

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Discourse Communities: A Nursing and Medical Perspective Importance of Nursing Multiple definitions of discourse communities exist, and therefore many questions arise. Where exactly is the line between a discourse community and a speech community drawn? “How [does] a particular discourse community use its discoursal conventions to initiate new members or how [does] the discourse of another reifies particular values or beliefs” (SWALES)? Some may consider musicians as part of a discourse community, or even a good group of friends.

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According to Ellis (2003), this classification is more centered around and allows for the theories of rhetoric that are influential in differentiating different discourse categories in terms of their structure and linguistic properties including narrative, instructions, description, reports, etc. These features often employ a linguistic (often functional) syllabus and appear to entail tasks creating chances and capacity for the free production of language that has been previously presented and practiced. As Ellis (2003) revealed, tasks of this category foster ‘task-supported’ teaching. Further, Ellis highlighted that influencing both the negotiation of meaning and the quality of learner production is one merit of applying a rhetorical classification,

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Morghan Renfrow Instructor C. Shackelford English 1113, Section 101 1 September 2016 Analysts of “How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently” An essay written by Deborah Tannen called “How male and females students use language differently”, is describing how they talk and interact with others. The writer presents different studies on how language changes based on a certain person. The essay states that men are more aggressive and talkative, while women are calm and modest about talking about the views they share.

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Joining a discourse community is something that we’ve all experienced, whether it's family, sports clubs or even going to church. In class we have been talking about the types of discourse communities we are apart of and sharing it with our fellow classmates. A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about those goals. I feel that it is very important to be apart of a discourse community because you share ideas and thoughts upon each other to build a relationship. Everybody is apart of a discourse community throughout the world.

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The main advantages of the experimental method is the ability to control what each participant experiences and this allows researchers to test precise and accurate hypotheses and draw conclusions about how one variable affects another. The main disadvantage of is that it cannot replicate or reproduce the complexity of real life and it can miss social rules and other factors that could establish whether a bystander intervenes or not. The discourse analysis, on the other hand can capture a richer and more varied picture of people’s experiences and looks at people’s actual experiences. However, it cannot provide general rules about human behaviour that could be applied to more than one

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For this analysis I’m going to be reflecting on how you can gain authority in a new discourse community. The discourse community that I am going to be looking at today is a high school tennis team. I was interested in reflecting on this topic because when I first started playing tennis on my high school team I didn’t have any authority. Then suddenly after one match I was one of the most authoritative players on the team and continued to be so for the rest of the season and the next year. This genuinely confused me at the time and I have never gotten a clear answer to why I suddenly had so much influence.

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Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian philosopher and author, once stated, “The well-being of a community of people working together will be the greater, the less the individual claims for himself the proceeds of his work, the more of these proceeds he makes over to his fellow-workers, the more his own needs are satisfied, not out of his own work but out of the work done by others” (“Recording of Society”). This quote represents the true meaning of a discourse community. A discourse community is a group of social individuals that work together to reach a common goal, understand the same basic values and assumptions, and use a unique kind of communication to reach their set goal or purpose. A good example of a discourse community is the organization

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It can be difficult to understand what it means to be a discourse or what communities fall under that category, and that is why I feel like John Swales’ definition of a discourse community is the the one that makes the most sense and the one that almost anybody can apply to communities they are part of and determine if they are discourses or not. Even though Gee and Porter had good points regarding discourses and good arguments, one almost had to be a linguist to fully understand what they were saying. They did help Swales get his point across more clearly in some instances though. Thanks to Swales I now know for a fact that my English 1113 class is a discourse community and I achieved that by following the six rules Swales presented as necessary to be a discourse community. Gee, James P. “Literary, Discourse, and Linguistics.”

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The reading “What is Literacy” by James Paul Gee is about the concept of the discourse community. According to Gee, discourse means that there is not just one form of literacy, and how people can use it. Discourse could be used to identify oneself as a member of a social network because as Gee says, discourse comes complete with instructions on communicating and acting when taking on a specific role in each situation. The discourse community has an “ideological” meaning which is about following, understanding, and speaking on a certain set of values and viewpoints, because discourse communities are inherently ideological, they are resistant to internal criticism and opposing viewpoints, and Swales identify the ways as an “identity kit”. In “What is Literacy”, learning involves conscious knowledge gained through teaching, while

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In Stephanie Jones’ article, “Language with an Attitude: White Girls Performing Class”, she goes in depth with explaining how young girls’ language and identities have a huge impact on the way they talk at home verses school. Jones explains that “for children who acquire their first Discourse in poverty….a challenge lies ahead: to gain access to flexible linguistic practices that work to your advantage in various contexts, especially in school” (122). Children who weren’t exposed to high levels of language are more up for a challenge when starting school. Those girls are more likely to have different types of

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A discourse in this understanding is not based on the classical distinction between thought and action, it “(…) is about the production of knowledge through language. But it is itself produced by a practice: “discursive practice” – the practice of producing meaning” (Hall, 2006:165). It follows that because all social practices involve meaning, all practices necessarily have a discursive side. A discourse is comparable to what sociologists would call an ‘ideology’. It is composed of statements and/or beliefs that shape knowledge in the interest of one particular group.

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