Swales & Glenn

Swales: In his article "The Concept of Discourse Community', John Swales attempts to tell the reader what he thinks a discourse community really is. He argues that a discourse community is different than a speech community and he defines six characteristics of discourse communities for us to recognize.

Glenn: In her article "Constructing and Consent: A Critical Analysis of Factory Farm and Industry Discourse" Cathy B. Glenn discusses the discourse community that is specifically designed to be directed to factory farms. She argues that that the factory farms are using "double speak" to mislead readers. She also looks at the ways the discourse used to portray these methods of misuse.

QD:  A discourse community that I was in would be my basketball teams. We had to recognize the names of plays, how to run it, and understand the people that have been in the big leagues and know the statistics to comprehend where we can better ourselves as a whole. Our Lexis was that we understood the plays we were taught by our coach and were able to use it to gain offensive points. The genre we had was repetitive drills we had and the names we use.

1: Companies that use double speak are the ones that would deal with make up companies. Women who take the make up are believed to become more beautiful and seem more appealing to males and help improve your face, but they don't tell you about the side effects that can occur with the certain types of make up.

Opinion: I didn't really care for the articles, but the Glenn article was much more entertaining. I liked how she was talking about a specific discourse community. She showed a more understanding towards people and animals and I liked how she discussed the problem within her article.