Deanna Mascle:
Mascle defindes the discourse community as a “group of people who "speak the same language" or in other words people who share an interest in certain topics, share a body of knowledge about those topics, and possess a common vocabulary for discussing those topics”. Café Mom has one main interest which is how to be a mom. Moms share topics about the same interests such pregnancy and health, birth, feeding the babies, dealing with children, dealing with teenagers and adults, how to the children.
Also reffering to Mascle, we can find the elements she sees in a discourse in Café mom. She first talks about the small discourse and gives example of a family and intimates. In Café mom, mothers are involved in a family discourse before they become mothers. For example, a girl before she gets married is still in the smaller discourse or as Gee calls it “primary discourse”(Gee 86).
After giving birth or getting married, a girl can involve in this larger discourse "secondary discourse"(Gee 86) that is motherhood and marriage life and, in this case, participate in Café mom. She also describes a community as a group of people that seek the same goal. Also, at café mom, as we analyzed previously, the members of this group are the mothers and they seek the goal of sharing their experience in order to benefit other mothers and help them to deal with their marriage life.
By: Hussain Alhajji
Also reffering to Mascle, we can find the elements she sees in a discourse in Café mom. She first talks about the small discourse and gives example of a family and intimates. In Café mom, mothers are involved in a family discourse before they become mothers. For example, a girl before she gets married is still in the smaller discourse or as Gee calls it “primary discourse”(Gee 86).
After giving birth or getting married, a girl can involve in this larger discourse "secondary discourse"(Gee 86) that is motherhood and marriage life and, in this case, participate in Café mom. She also describes a community as a group of people that seek the same goal. Also, at café mom, as we analyzed previously, the members of this group are the mothers and they seek the goal of sharing their experience in order to benefit other mothers and help them to deal with their marriage life.
By: Hussain Alhajji