The essay I wrote about the discourse community is important because it defines who you are as a person or aren’t involved in anymore. You’re affected by your environment and what discourse community you chose to associate with. A discourse community is a group of people who have the same interest in the same topics or speak the same languages. Not being from the same discourse community makes it difficult to relate or even have a conversation. Discourse community is important because it is how we communicate in the social world within particular sport, activities, jobs and so on. I am trying to convince the audience that moving from one discourse community isn’t easy, for most people it takes days, weeks, months or years to adjust. The opening to my essay described the environment I lived in and a couple of flashbacks to understand my discourse community. Involving a diversity of background, focusing on certain communities that I had to face or were involved in, school, etc. Adjusting to one community to another wasn’t easy for me and it took me a year to enter new discourse communities and some that came along with me such as my family. It wasn’t my greatest experience from the beginning but it turned out to be a positive outcome because it allowed me to be open minded about new communities, tradition, culture, etc. Allowing people to come into my life and being able to speak more than one language.
