CL 2/4

Stein, which is to be considered an unreliable narrator, wrote this piece in order to fish for a more broader and deeper meaning within the text from his audience. The article at first glance is about baseball, but since his intentions are for his audience to think deeper into the article, we can come to the conclusion that this article is about the United States war machine and similarly, how the United State’s pompous history has put them in places that they do not need to be. This article’s rhetoric is deliberately sarcastic and ironic in order to unhinge very opinionated topics that otherwise could not be written about in a serious section of a serious magazine like Time.

Swales

1. Centripetal means to work inward so the objective is centralized. In speech communities, people inherent their members through birth, accident or adoption. They want a sense of group and since centripetal means to work your way in, this group attracts outsiders in order to conform to their group. On the contrary, centrifugal is the process of heading away. So, discourse communities could be the form of solidarity that offers the attraction through differences. These very different groups are attracting in their own way for difference reasons that speech communities are attractive.
2. Broadly agree with goals in everyone in community, mechanism of intercommunications of people in the group, participation and feedback, use genres, specifics and jargin, threshold amount of members and amount of content is suitable between members of community,
3. It is important keep this academic and not see this as an invite to take this knowledge seriously.