Discourse Communites

Communities I belong to:
NMSU, Pre-Pharmacy Major, UNM/NMSU Cooperative Pharmacy Program, Pre-Pharmacy Society, Classes, Friend workout group, Group of friends, Gadsden HS Alumni Band, Myspace, Facebook. This is all I could think of at the moment, I'm sure there's a few more that are just not coming into mind.



UNM/NMSU Cooperative Pharmacy Program: In this program I play the role of a student who got accepted into the program to help guide me through my future career as a pharmacist. In this certain group, we share a professional relationship amongst each other. There are a total of ten students who are actually in the program, along with four advisers that are there to help guide us. The language that is shared within the group is one of professinalism, as I just mentioned, and one of goals and priorities we have that we want to reach. With these goals and priorities, we make up our own community due to the fact that the jargon we tend to use will probably only be understood by ourselves and a few other people. The commonplace in use would have to be that, at times when we have certain duties, we are to dress perfessionally to show we are mature young adults that take our future seriously.

Gadsden High School Alumni Band: In this group my role is an alumni. This group is one that invites those who have been part of the Gadsden High School Band at any point in that past years since the school has been around. As long as you played to help cheer the school on, remember how to play your instrament and how to read music, then you are more than welcomed into this community. The commonplaces that are part of this community would be the uniforms we wear, simply being a polo shirt showing we are part of this band, the lingo, after all in order to understand what is going on you have to know and understand the music vocabulary that is being used, and lastly, the memories each one of us made while being part of the band during our high school years.

My group of friends: In my group of friends I play the role of, well, a friend. My friends and I are a group of people who are easy-going and friendly who just love to have a good time. Our language is however we chose to speak. We have days where we speak in a mature manner having serious conversations, while other days we just speak without thinking, being silly. We love to make new friends so with our easy-going attitudes it shows that everyone as welcomed. The commonplaces in this group would be our love of music, photos of memories we have made together, inside jokes that we have make along the years, and so much more.