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Introduction

Discourse communities is a fancy terminology that is used to refer to a group of people who have common ideals and shared goals. The group of people have a communication that tends to bring things in order, this is to mean that the since they share a common approach to things they can be categorized as one. Swales sets about common criteria that one will need to fulfil so as to be able to fulfill the criteria of the discourse community. The six basic criteria include: share common goals. Genre, communication, type f rhetor and hierarchy maintained throughout the system. Each and very concept will be explained in the process of trying to provide an explanation to the concept of Humane society so as to be able to show that this discourse community exists.

Literature Review

John swales has been able to highlight in his book about the concept of a discourse community and the need of understanding the concepts and what it entails and also the requirements. Swales begins with comparing and contrasting the different that exists between communities, this is based on speech and text. This type of discourse shows how a community can primarily be able to focus on how their messages are able to be gotten across language has to be taken into consideration, this is therefore effective on how the will end up speaking. This should not be confused with the notion of people having the same language which automatically implies that they belong to a certain group. This is because one can come from a different population but he or she is part of a totally different discourse. This was well explained in the article of companion to linguistic Anthropology a speech a community needed so as to be able to fit with the requirements of having a local knowledge of the choice of language (Steve, 2006). The other type of discourse that seems to exist focuses on intertextuality. This has been best explained in the article titled Intertextuality and the discourse community, this articles looks at how other texts can be derived from other texts. Everything that connects to each other in one way or the other. This is compared with plagiarism where ideas are borrowed from somewhere else or rather information acquired to be able to expound on certain issues (Porter, 1986). There are ideas that simply fulfill the speech through writing.

Swales in his writing states that for one to be able to figure out the discourse in either the ultimate share of common goals. There are helpful mechanisms that can be used by people to be able to retrieve information and feedback. The fourth is different types of genre to be able to get the intended message out to people. The fifth, which is more good to the community that possess them. It also provides hierarchy in the society, this is to mean that there will be high above certain members of the community and eventually having the ability to move higher to a standing point.

Methods

I have settled for the Humane society to observe and record if it will meet the six characteristics highlighted. The wellbeing of animals and how they are being treated will be important to be because my entire life I have had the privilege of having all kinds of pet. It is not only compassion able to have around all new additions to the family. Being a veterinarian was one of the things I desired to become aside of becoming a pediatrician. I admire this community because the welfare of pets is provided a significant priority and this really amazes me. I was able to interview two people particularly Coulehan Ryan who offers volunteer services and Wong Jennifer who is in charge of the bringing the pets into the shelter.

I was privileged to get a tour of the facility and being able to observe the normal or rather the daily life at the humane society. The interview that I conducted was carried out during the day and I first interviewed Wong to be able to get her views and later on interviewed Ryan to find out what they look in before taking in animals. Their answers were almost similar and I will keep on referring to them. They were able to provide me of their job details and their daily routine.

Discussion

The ultimate goals of the humane society were to ensure that euthanasia comes to an end, reduce the number of homeless pets, create awareness of spay access, rescue groups and adoption of pets. This are the common set of public goals that this discourse community seeks to fulfill. This is with regards to the works of swales that a discourse community needs to have a common goal (Swales, 1990). To be able to ensure that this public goals has been achieved the local facilities are not supposed to turn away any pet but rather adopt them. I was able to interview Jenifer Wong who handles the welfare of the animals. She was able to tell me some of her goals and what she emphasized on the most was to be a no kills shelter and cultivating a no kill community. To be able to ensure that her goals was on course the humane society was able to partner with corporations like summit urgent care, pets smart, pets barn among others (W. Jenifer, March 12th, 2018, personal communication). I inquired from her what are some of the ways the humane society tried to fulfill the goals that they had as an organization. She said as an organization they were trying to encourage people to volunteer and that’s why they had people like Ryan who volunteered. She further added was that they fostered pets to caring parties so as to be able to create room for new pets.

A discourse community seeks to have a mechanism of intercommunication among its members. This communication can be though social media, email, telephone and of course in person. The Humane society has made it a priority to be able to reach out to the members of the community as much as possible they have also exercised this emphasis on their members to be able to keep up and always dedicate themselves to the goals that they have. Jenifer was able to state that the Humane society was a non-governmental organization and therefore it was a non-profit organization and the only way they could raise money to fund their operation was to be of service to its members. They could also raise funds though social gatherings and promote and advertise shelters.

Conclusion.

Generally, I was able to come to a conclusion that the Humane society is able to fulfill all the six characteristic that were mentioned by swales. The Goals of Humane society are all similar across the country and it uses its own specific lexis and it has different forms of genres and it has a mode of communication to all its members. It also has professionals and well trained members that come from different hierarchies.

Reference

Porter, J. (1986). Intertextuality and the discourse community. Ethnography Journal.

Steve, J. (2006). Companion to Linguistic Anthropology. Wiley.

Swales, J. (1990). Writing about writing. NJ: McGraw-Hill.