Quote 1: ” Thus, members of a DC may have different first languages, different religions, and belong to diverse ethnicities.”
Response: I agree with his quote because every race comes with different languages, cultures, and values. For example, in the Black community, there are many diverse people from all over the world. From America to Jamaica to Australia to Africa. Many speak Creole as their first language while others speak French, Black English, Arabic, etc.
Quote 2: “For instance, when we visit a department in the university that is new to us, our immediate impression is typically one of a homogeneous and sedate disciplinary world with wide agreements about such matters as methodology and epistemology…it seems to be fragmented and compartmentalized.”
Response: I feel the exact way every semester. I was taking A&P 2 last semester and every class we got deeper and deeper into each body part and organ. It’s like each time we pulled off one layer of a topic, there’s a lot more to discover within that topic.
3 Discourse communities:
- Church community: When you go to church, you participate in fellowship, activities, and became a member. The pastor communicates the gospel (message) to the congregation and breaks it down for more understanding in a teaching form and the praise and worship group sing songs also communicating the message. The goal of the church is to spread the gospel and reach as many people as possible.
- Distance learning: The school’s facility and staff communicate with students through email and video calls. Whenever the students complete their assignments or have questions about something, the contact their professors or a staff member through email, video calls, or Blackboard. The goal for distance learning is to stay safe and maintain an accessible way to continue their academics.
- Fitness community: A client needs motivation and guide to help lose weight so they may hire a fitness trainer. The client wants to lose weight by incorporating high-intensity cardio and gain some muscle mass. The trainer understands and creates a workout and diet that best fits the client. During all their workouts, they both encourage one another, and both build a form of trust that their goals will be met.
Some things to think about–
Your church is a DC–absolutely–not all churches see the leaders in the same authoritative way, they don’t praise and worship the same way and an outsider coming to your church for the first time would not necessarily know what to do or how.
I don’t know if distance learning is a DC but certainly students at City Tech doing online classes are a DC. As for your exercise group, even the type of exercise matters and can define a DC –a practicer of yoga won’t believe or do the same as a body builder, for example.