Summary: In "Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice: Membership, Conflict, and Diversity," Ann M. Johns discusses further the idea of conflict that can happen between discourse communities. She focuses on academic discourse community and what is expected when being in one.
QD: 1. Some complications would be the cost of affiliation, which are sacrifices such as creating a personal and social distance between them and their families and communities. Another complication would be authority, such as who is higher up after someone has completed a degree, published and been advanced.
2. It means that not everyone is going to think the exact same way, but they do have similar conventions and are able to pull those together which can bring new ideas to the discourse community.
3. No I do not think so because I have never changed myself to fit in, if people do not like my values or beliefs then I would not be in that discourse community.
4. I agree because you have to have the same interest to want to be involved in a discourse community.
5. I do not feel I have had much authority because with everything I have had to write it is being made up by the Professor and you have to follow guidelines.
6. It is for students because it is the teachers who have the final say and you never know what may happen.
MM: I think that it becomes confusing when you are told so many rules to be considered part of a discourse community, most of the time I feel you are not constantly thinking about the expectations it just becomes natural when you are belonging to a discourse community.
Reflection: I didn’t get very engaged with this reading because I felt it was a lot like Swales and Gee, but I did find it interesting with what is “expected” of discourses.
I think you do a good job responding to this article, and even though I do not think it was a lot like Swales and Gee I understand how you would connect the too and not get as interested in the article.
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