The Wall Street Journal: Does Language Exclude Others?
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journalism
school essay
published 12/09/2007
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SummaryThe assignment states that “language use in discourse communities functions (in part) to exclude others”. While this is true in many cases, sometimes language use in discourse communities actually functions to include others. After all, the goal of any publication, be it a newspaper, a science journal, or a magazine, sets forth the goal of maximizing its readership, not excluding any potential subscribers. In attempts to include others, a publication must use non-exclusionist writing, so that a person who does not belong to the discourse community can easily digest and comprehend the writing.
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- The purpose of the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is to distribute information in the most simple and effective way possible
- We cannot summarize the intention or purpose of this collection as a whole without analyzing the purpose of several specific articles
- The goal of a publication is to maximize readership
- In our discussion of the WSJ and the style with which it targets its readers, we have been discussing the exceptions, the oddities of the writing, and mainly things that make it unique as a publication
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