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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 provide information and feedback, (4) the possession of genres of communication, (5) the acquisition of a specific lexis, and (6) a group of members with similar levels of expertise about a subject.
Aug 8, 2024 · What is a discourse community? A discourse community is a group of people that work towards a common goal through communication. This group develops a process for communication, a unique vocabulary of jargon, and a power structure tied to the source of their community. John Swales maintains that genres both “belong” to discourse communities ...
- Ashley Roach-Freiman
- 2018
Discourse is a more technical way of referring to spoken or written communication. Thus, a discourse community is a group of people that is united by the way the members communicate and the things they communicate about. American linguist John Swales outlines six defining characteristics of a discourse community.
Jun 8, 2017 · Swales’ definition has six components: members of a discourse community have shared goals, shared means of communication, provide information and feedback as the primary purpose of participation, use and feel ownership of one or more genres in discourse, use specific lexical items, and have a common level of expertise.
A discourse community is a textual system with stated and unstated conventions, a vital history, mechanisms for wielding power, institutional hierarchies, vested interests, and so on." Porter held the belief that all new ideas added to a discourse community had an impact on the group, changing it forever. [2]
Jan 8, 2023 · “how large (or small) a discourse community might be; whether speech is needed to maintain a discourse community; whether purpose is the defining characteristic of a discourse community, and how stable a discourse community, and therefore its genres, are” (Borg, 2003, p. 399).
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In teaching students about the concept of discourse community, I want students to leave my class understanding that: a) there is no such thing as a formula or set of rules for “academic discourse”; b) each course in each field of study they take in college will require them to write in the context of a different set of discourse community expectations; and c) discourse communities can both ...