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In order to get data for the interview questions, I interviewed a number of different people in my sorority.  With questions such as “what did you have to give up to join this community, and which community do you view as your primary one” I thought it was best that I ask different people.  I think these questions are more important to simply asking ones I can answer myself.  I hoped by getting these answers I could look at the idea about having conflicted discourse communities.  I believe that you can have more than one, but only one can be most important.  I realized that many girls do value the sorority as being their primary discourse community, but it wasn’t always that way.  Most girls said that it became more important to them as they grew older, and became almost their identity.  Other girls who are in other organizations said that they take feedback from all of their discourse communities but they use it to contribute to their primary discourses.

Another interesting fact I found when doing my interviews was the different lexis’s girl’s use in the sorority.  Yes, we all have secret codes and sayings but they touched on the different ways they speak to their friends in the sorority as opposed to ones outside.  They also pointed out the interesting language used during recruitment that new girls have to learn.