Quote #1: “…discourse communities both influence and are influenced by the larger communities within which they are situated. in consequence, when a university becomes established in a town, the presence … Read More
Category: Week 2 Work (Page 3 of 4)
Quote 1: “The clock goes very slowly in the Herbarium. If a botanist wants to borrow some specimens from Michigan, he or she needs to agree to keep them for … Read More
“Thus, members of a DC may have different first languages, different religions, and belong to diverse ethnicities.”
This quote is compelling to me when I think about the reach certain … Read More
Quote #1: Fine, but we now need to emphasize the roles of new digital channels, such as emails, blogs, tweets, etc., and we also need to stress that without any … Read More
Quote 1: “Fine, but we now need to emphasize the roles of new digital channels, such as emails, blogs, tweets, etc., and we also need to stress that without any … Read More
Quote 1: ” Indeed, many types of Discourse Communities develop shorthand expressions, such as abbreviations and acronyms, to aid speed of communication.”
Response: What I found interesting about this quote … Read More
Quote 1: “As is well known, there often emerges a conflict between the local demands on their time and the focal demands on that time—a conflict that is presumably becoming … Read More
Quote 1- “The term discourse community is now more than thirty years old since it was apparently first coined by Martin Nystrand, a professor of English at the University of … Read More
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“Fine, but we now need to emphasize the roles of new digital channels, such as emails, blogs, tweets, etc., and we also need to stress that without any … Read More
Quote 1: “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 … Read More