My Discourse Community
Communication is the basic element in any society. Humans are social beings, meaning that we need to communicate in order to survive. It’s something we learn since we are little, we learn to yell when we need something, cry when something hurts, and smile when we are satisfied. As we get older, we learn words; then we start to form sentences that express what we feel or need. Finally, we learn to Communicate in different aspects of our lives. We also learn different forms of communication, letters, spoken, visual, and more. When we reach a certain age, we become conscious of certain rules in the communication we use; we learn that you don’t speak to your teacher the way you would speak to friends. We unconsciously start learning how to adapt in the different discourse communities we belong to. Each discourse community has its own rules; they have their language, their topics of interest, and different characteristics that make them unique. I define discourse community, as the different groups of people you socialize with, either voluntarily
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