CL 2/4

He’s not really talking about baseball
He’s talking about the US military, it’s use, and being in various places around the world
Unreliable narrator. Stein does not equal narrator.
Use of sarcasm, irony.
Looking to provoke a response.
Appeared in Time
Stein writes to evoke a response, loves using irony and sarcasm, sometimes gets in trouble for it, professional writer.
Audience are those that agree with him
The point of Stein’s essay is to provoke/reinforce anger or frustration with the use of the US military and the supposed moral authority of America.
Swales
1) speech communities are centripetal in that they tend to absorb people whereas discourse communities are centrifugal in that they tend to separate people into specializations
2) Common public goals; mechanisms of intercommunication among members; participatory mechanisms for information and feedback; utilizes one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims; acquired some specific lexis; threshold of members with sortable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise
3) That this definition is somewhat removed from reality in the sense that it is an ideal state. There are many conflicts and tensions, even among members of the same community, that are not yet fully accounted for in this definition.

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