Saturday, August 27, 2011
Discourses - Funny
*This provides a great example in how discourses are different along with how they are impacted by other societies.*
Description:
In this video clip, we see distinctive discourses. Both speakers work for Christian TV so it is important to maintain their background and life perspective. Their personalities and in effect, discourses, reflect being proper, educated, maintained, and even - gullible.
When the first speaker reads the post submitted to Christian TV through email by a random follower, the email's content is about the classic tv show Fresh Prince of Bel Air with Will Smith. The email mocked Christian TV because it retold the introduction to the popular tv show, which is about a street-smart teen from Philadelphia who is sent to move in with his aunt and uncle in their wealthy mansion in California. Fresh Prince of Bel Air has suburban, youthful African American roots originating from the early 1990's American lifestyle including mixtures between upper class and ghetto roots. It is interesting to hear the first speaker's dialect while she reads the email. Since she is from England, there is an obvious difference in her discourse. The second speaker is from Africa, which provides for a different discourse due to his different dialect and perspective. Throwing the Fresh Prince of Bel Air introduction to those two speakers from Christian TV was nothing short of humorous, in my opinion. This provides a great example in how discourses are different along with how they are impacted by other societies and their discourses.
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Pretty funny. I'd be surprised, though if the Christian community viewed "gullibility" as part of its own Discourse. It seems like the woman's unfamiliarity with American popular culture is the real source of her confusion, rather than her Christianity.
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