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Discourse Community Research Paper

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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. A very important discourse community that I belong to is my family. Being apart of a discourse community is much more than having a relationship, it’s building a bond and a family together. As I decided to chose what community i wanted to be apart of, I chose my family to be my discourse community because I think it is an important to have your family as your most comfortable discourse family. Choosing my family was the best choice for me because you're apart of a family that can never be broken by anything. The way you talk to your family should be different from the …show more content…

If it was a choice to me then of course I would choose my family to be my community. My family are the ones who took care of me since I was born so therefore they would be my favorite and most important community to me. I think one goal of mine would try to be apart of as many discourse communities as possible just to learn the different lifestyles and ways of living beyond on social communities. What I would do with this goal is compare other families ways of living to mine. Try to see how ours connect by contact zones. Contact zones will help us determine if our families have similarities, differences and how they could work together to build one discourse

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