The Concept of discourse community

The main point of The Concept of Discourse Community by John Swales is to educate and provide the reader with a framework on what a “discourse community” is. Swales begins by educating the reader on how this concept of a discourse community has been and continues interpreted in different ways. Although he disagrees he citesContinue reading “The Concept of discourse community”

REDO How language shape our reality.

This article basically talks about how having a different language can shape the way we do things like the way we talk,the way we speak,the way we perceive everything it can also be a gateway to different things like the way we do other things showed from different studys. This was a very interesting articleContinue reading “REDO How language shape our reality.”

“No one could see the colour blue until modern times

This reading was a writing piece that explained the color blue and how we as a people fully couldn’t see the color blue till modern times .We realized this because of odessy book which corresponded by always mistakinging blue for dark wine sea in his journey in the ocean. I already read this article beforeContinue reading ““No one could see the colour blue until modern times”

Mother Tongue by Amy Tan

In this story mother tongue her sdescribes her relationship with her mother, who speaks “broken” English. Essentially, Amy ending up changing her style of writing because of her mother, who changed Amy’s perception of language. In the beginning of her life, Amy was always ashamed and embarrassed because of her mother; her mother, in speakingContinue reading “Mother Tongue by Amy Tan”

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