Choose one of the following pairs of discourse to discuss and analyze: Option 1: Grit: It Takes Grit | U.S. Air Force Academy (TV Commercial)
Angela Lee Duckworth at Ted Talks Education: Grit: The Power and Passion of Perseverance The Environment: Earth Blog: Short stories About Your Earth
Greenpeace UK
Option 3: The Immigrant Experience My Name
How I Became A Southern-Fried Nigerian
Option 4: Money: Wealth Versus Poverty Advertisement for the Waldorf-Astoria
Tickets From Poverty to a Better Future: Congress Should Move Poor Families to Healthy Neighborhoods
Option 5: Gender in the Workplace Men Seek Flexibility at Work
Sheryl Sandberg: Progress for Women Isn’t Just Slow—It’s Stalled
In your initial posting, Identify the genre of each of the two discourse samples. How do the two samples deal with the topic differently or similarly? Discuss what you observe as the features of each genre. What are the similarities between the genres of the two discourse samples? What are the differences between the genres of the two discourse samples? Assess how genre can contribute to meaning. Is a specific genre a better choice for conveying certain ideas or perspectives? Discuss any prior texts or discourses that might have influenced the two discourse samples. Consider prior texts of the same genre, as well as different genres. You may need to do a little research. Discuss the situational registers of each discourse sample (if relevant). How does the situational register contribute to enregisterment, or the semiotic and style choices that give meaning to the text? Identity specific language choices that help to convey meaning, perspective, and ideology, such as repeated words, clichés, and culturally significant language. Are these choices characteristic of the genre, the author, or the topic in general? Discuss the frames or plots that function as scaffolds, creating worlds and contexts for the discourse. Assess how genre and intertextuality influence and are influenced by contemporary ideologies, in particular ideologies of power, control, injustice, inequality, social change, or emancipation.
