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3/12 Class Notes

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Johns’ Discourse Communities

  • Texts must be explicit
  • Use language that is common to the community
  • Audience matters
  • Topic and argument should be presented in the introduction
  • Should guide the reader along the reading, guideposts like subheadings
  • Should be written in a way that allows the reader to see an objective paper
  • When using ‘I’ only use it for experiences or anecdotal evidence, never for opinions
  • Texts should not get emotional or personal, should stay factual
  • Should avoid judgments unless it is in a personal story talking about how things felt
  • Do not speak in absolutes (never, always, everyone, all the time…)
  • Consider what other people value
  • Consider how the audience views the world
  • Meta Discourses – the discourse of discourse, talking about discourse in a discourse

Discourse Communities and Film

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Discourse Communities

  • Groups of people who use similar language
  • Majors, jobs, clubs, classes
  • Similar goals
  • Active members
  • Possible for many genres for each community

Exit Through the Gift Shop

  • Family, film, photography, street art
  • Theirry uses his discourse of film to get into the street art discourse
  • It varies between discourses, for Theirry and the street art scene he needed to have their trust to be able to film the artists
  • He had to climb his way to the top to work with banksy