Band Kid
In "Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice: Membership, Conflict, and Diversity" by Ann Johns, she defines a discourse community as being, "an idea of language [and genres] as a basis for sharing and holding in common: shared expectations, shared participation, commonly (or communicably) held ways of expressing." We are all apart of many different discourse communities, however there is always one that we are apart of that defines us more than any of the others. I believe that this is none more true than during high school. Whether you were a jock, a nerd, a mean girl , a theater kid, or something in between, nearly everyone in high school had their group they associated with. For many, your discourse community becomes your identity while in high school, whether you were aware of it or not. This happened to me. I did marching band all four years of high school and of course I knew everyone thought of me as being a band kid . However it wasn't until my...
