Essays on Discourse Community

Introduction

In the adsorption-membrane hybrid system for ethanol steam reforming: Thermodynamics analysis by Dang, Amornchai, Yaneeporn, and Suttichai, (2011, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy), the authors seek to explain how an adsorption-membrane hybrid system, which uses a carbon (IV) oxide as an adsorbent can be used to eliminate unwanted carbon (IV) oxide in the hydrogen separation process. The authors aimed at improving the ethanol steam reforming performance through comparison of thermodynamic analysis that comprised of adsorptive, as well as membrane reactor. Then the authors were able to find that membrane separation process for the hydrogen removal had a higher impact ...

Communication within Discourse Communities

Discourse, from Latin discursus, means written and spoken communications. According to Michel Foucault, discourse is a series of signs because they form statements and reports in an organization. As a discourse, a statement is a construct that is aided by semiotic signs to give meanings. Therefore, discourse entails statements, subjects and objects that form the semiotic series. A people who share certain interests imply a discourse community. In so doing, the group has a common language through which they communicate. A log is another way in which how something is said or written and can be just as important ...

John Swales describes a discourse community as a group of people who are usually bonded together by a particular issue or interest. The group may comprise of people with similar goals and objectives about a particular topic, and they then come up with a forum where they can discuss these similar interests, as they work towards achieving the specific goals and objectives in life (Swales 217).These people share a common ideology and a similar way of discussing issues. The communities can be from a vast group of heritage such as a fandom, certain fields of study and also ...

John swales, a professor of linguistics defines the term “discourse community” in such a particular way. He believes that a discourse community is any group of people who share a set of goals and have come up with different ways of communicating about the said goals. These individuals generally use communication in order to achieve their goals. They usually have some unique forms of communication. Throughout the said communications, some particular lexis is used in description of anything in the discourse community. According to swales, the discourse communities have various genres, and even comprise of some reasonable ration of ...

People tend to come together forming groups and societies that are linked by a common interest. The groups and societies are normally oriented towards achieving similar goals and objectives. They can then be classified as a discourse community. According to John Swales, a professor of linguistics at the Michigan corpus academy of spoken English at the University of Michigan, a discourse community can be referred to as the continuously increasing assumption that there exists a discourse operating within conventions that are defined by communities or social groups (Swales 217). He classifies the characteristics of a real discourse community into ...