Discourse Community: Siblings

As for the discourse community I belong to, which I thought of is siblings, since I consider to be a sibling to my siblings. I have an older sister called Reem and she is 26 years old. I also have two younger brothers Ali and Mohammed. Ali’s age is 17 and Mohammed’s age is 11. We all share the same goals most of the time specially when it comes to our parents. We all want to make our parents happy and proud by doing good in school and behave between each other. Since we live in the same house, part of our intercommunications is when we eat lunch, dessert in the afternoons, and at dinner. We usually talk in these times in the table during lunch and dinner and in the living room during dessert. We usually talk about our day in school. Even now when I am away, we still communicate through family group chat. We give feedback to each other, when we needed to compliment each other, when my brothers needed help understanding their assignments, or when they do poorly on a test. They would ask either my sister or me to help them understand what went wrong. I usually also take feedback from them or info about my parents, if they were not at home and my brothers seemed to know where they are.

For the genre, from our legal documentation we all carry the same middle name and last name we all considered siblings, were we use those documentation such as our ID to speak as a legal gradient, when my younger brother needs that in school or hospital, and the same thing with my sister. As for our lexis we do use some phrases or nicknames between each other that my parents don’t know of, if we want to send a face-to-face message to one another while everyone present, we use these phrases so no one would understand what we are saying. As for hierarchy of members we do have difference in ages and different positions when it comes to our parents. My sister goes first, me, Ali, then Mohammed in age wise. Mohammed is the youngest and he seemed to get what he wants when it comes to my mom. Ali is the oldest boy, so he is considered the man of the house when my parents are away. My sister is the one that gets anything she wants and do what she wants, since she is the older one and the first child being born. I tend to be the one who fix problems and disagreements in the house, the engineer, and my dad’s favorite.