In Bazerman’s “Speech Acts, Genres, and Activity Systems: How Texts Organize Activity and People”, some terms and methods that he describes in his text that I can relate to my specific major or analyzing other discourse communities are “social acts” and “speech acts”. Bazerman describes social facts as “those things people believe to be true, and therefore bear on how they define a situation” (p. 312). This relates to my discourse community in the finance world because as someone who is trusted to manage client’s money and invest in the best interest of the client, they [the client] have to trust in my knowledge on the financial decisions I recommend to them. For example, if apple is expected to release a new iPhone, iPad, and MacBook in the same year; the client would have to believe that my intuition that apple stock will increase and take my recommendation to invest in apple to heart. Secondly, Bazerman describes speech acts as “how to do things with words, argued that words not only mean things, they do things” (p. 313). Not only do I think that this relates to my specific finance related discourse community, but it relates to all discourse communities because words are the medium of how every human being tells a story, relays information, and tries to persuade their audience.
The activity system that I am most interested in investigating are the behavioral aspects that affect a client’s financial planning process. From understanding a client’s investing thought process and how they make decisions, to how the financial manager has to work with these “obstacles” to effectively manage their money, I am interested in learning more about what goes on behind the scenes in finance. I might determine what to include by breaking down the different areas of finance (e.g personal finance, investments, derivatives, international finance, etc.) and focus on one specific area. Additionally, I am interested in interviewing my academic advisor, Dr. Michael Melton, who is also in charge of the CAFÉ program at Roger Williams University. His immense amount of knowledge can also aid myself in determining what to include.
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