Blog 6 Discourse

As I was taking notes during our class I did notice that our class exhibits examples of a Discourse community. While I was observing the class talking about their projects I noticed some forms of language (lexis) that were used in the discussion that aren't typically used in other classroom besides English classrooms. We also discuss things in this classroom that we wouldn't typically discuss in other classrooms for example; Discourse, social language, intertextuality, and analysis. We also share goals in this classroom for example; being able to analyze writing pieces and being able to break down the meanings of certain pieces of writing. Branick defines Discourse as a community that shares goals, lexi's and genre's. This classroom exhibits all of those traits because we all share the same goals, use langauge (lexi's) that aren't typically used in other classroom (which I stated before), and genre (we all complete the same assignments to reach our goal). Although this class is different than most classes I have taken I believe that some of the aspects of this class are shared with other classes. For example; I am familiar with the Branick essay because I read it in another class (Eng 3005). In this class we used similar language and we had do an ethnography of our own. So with that being said I do think we share similar goals with other English classes but most classes I have taken do not exhibit the same language as this class which makes it a Discourse community.