John Swales created an argument over constructed nature of language and discourse communities.
Analyzing comes with knowing the genre, situtations, rhetoric, and conventions in a text or speech.
Discourse communities is about the irrespective of the merits of clusters of ideas.
The 6 characteristics of the Discourse Community
- broad agreed set of goals.
2. mechanism of intercommunication among 12 its members.
3. provides useful information and feedback
4.uses one or more genres in the communitative furtherance of its aims
5. acquires some specific lexis.
6. has threshold level of members with suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise.
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