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A discourse community: 1) has a broadly agreed set of common public goals; 2) has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members; 3) uses its participatory mechanisms to provide information and feedback; 4) utilizes and possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims;
Jun 8, 2017 · Abstract. Discourse communities, their characteristic features and communicative routines, have long been a focus of research. The expansion of technology has changed discourse communities, however, because a much broader set of members can now participate in them. Contemporary research has begun to explore how technology-mediated discourse ...
There is a further question of whether shared goals are necessary to define a discourse community. Although Swales (1990) felt shared goals were definitive, a ‘public discourse community’ cannot have shared goals, and more crucially, a generalized ‘academic discourse community’ may not have shared goals or genres in any meaningful sense.
The chapters in this section provide new perspectives on discourse community knowledge: “Discourse and Discourse Community” explains the concepts of discourse and discourse communities to show how discourse is shaped within a community. It provides an overview of how discourse communities coalesce around shared goals and a common language ...
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Discourse Communities. The term ‘discourse community’ was coined by sociolinguist Martin Nystrand in 1982 and further developed by John Swales, an American linguist. Broadly speaking, a discourse community is defined by six components: (1) a set of common public goals, (2) mechanisms of intercommunication among members, (3) the ability to ...
For Swales (1990), discourse communities have six identifying characteristics: 1. A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals. 2. A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members. 3. A discourse community uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback. 4.
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Jan 24, 2021 · Features that all discourse communities have are a broadly agreed upon set of common public goals, mechanisms of interaction among members, information and feedback, one or more genres that help further the goals of the discourse community, a specific language that is understood by the community, and a couple expert members.
