CL 2/4

Let’s talk about Stein one last time, then answer this question:
Let’s finish by writing a tentative claim about “In Defense of Domination.” Here’s a writing prompt to help you:What is the purpose of Stein’s challenging essay?

• His purpose for writing the article is to rally those for who share his opinion on the way america is viewed, and the war on terror. Stein does this with the approach of sarcasm and irony. while using the example of a famous baseball team in america. This helped his readers and people with other points of view be able to compare the privileged behavior and how it effects everyone else.

Now let’s switch gears and talk about “The Concept of Discourse Community.”

1. How does Swales explain what he means when he writes that speech communities are centripetal while discourse communities are centrifugal? (471)
2. According to Swales, what are the six defining characteristics of a discourse community? (471-473)
3. In your own words, what does Swales point out as the problems of the concept of discourse community? (478)

• On page 471 Swales explains that in a speech community they need the communicative needs of the group like socialization or the unity of the group. they tend to predominate in the development and maintenance of its discoursal maintenance. where however in a discourse community the communicative needs or the goals tend to predominate in the development and maintenance of its discoursal communities.
• discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals,a discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members, discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback, a discourse community utilizes and hence posses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aim, in addition to owning genres a discourse community has acquired some specific lexiz, a discourse community has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise.
• he pointed out that having a discourse community in classes is not possible, because there will be a broad agreement on goals.

Now let’s answer these questions:

1. If we take this as true, in your own words describe what you think Swales sees as the gap in this conversation he’s participating in (the conversation described by the editors in the preface to the chapter).
2. In your opinion, how does this piece fill that gap?
3. Who do you think is the audience for this essay?
4. What’s the danger of an essay like this?