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A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about those goals

A discourse community can be viewed as a social network, built from participants who share some set of communicative purposes

Discourse communities are not limited to involvement of people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds.

The concept of discourse community was created using ideas from speech communities and interpretive communities

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1. Porter, James E. "Intertextuality and the discourse community." Rhetoric review 5.1 (1986): 34-47.^[2]
   • Discourse community: "a group of individuals bound by a common interest who communicate through approved channels and whose discourse is regulated" (Porter, p. 38).
     • one person can belong to a many discourse communities (p. 39)
   • Every text added to a discourse community changes the make up of the community forever, all ideas added have an impact
   • socialized vs. post-socialized writers
     • Socialized writers: fully accepted member of a discourse community
     • Post-socialized writers: writers who have become leaders in discourse community, that set example/rules for the rest of the community
   • Intertextuality indicates that students main focus should be learning to write in their chosen discourse community and teachers should help with this
2. Borg, Erik. "Discourse community." ELT journal 57.4 (2003): 398-400.^[3]
   • A discourse community is characterized by two things (pg. 398)
     • a group with a common goal/purpose and,
     • using communication within the group to try and reach these goals and purposes
   • the idea of discourse communities came from speech communities and interpretive communities (pg. 398)
   • being a member of a discourse community is a choice (pg. 398)
   • goals are shared among members (common goal) and there is constant communication to reach these common goals (pg. 398)
   • lists a number of problems/questions about discourse communities that have still not been answered (pg. 399)
   • In 1998, Swale after previously proposing the idea that discourse communities are connected by only written communication, proposed the concept of "place discourse communities" which are connected by both writing and speech (399)
   • "community of practice" becoming popular and overtaking "discourse community" (399)
3. Swales, John M. "Discourse community and." Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 1992: Language, Communication, and Social Meaning (1993): 316.^[4]
   • discourse community is not defined well yet and raises questions (218)
   • 6 characteristics for identifying a discourse community: (220)
     • agreed set of public, common goals (220)
     • intercommunication among its members (221)
     • uses mechanisms to provide info and feedback for the most part (221)
     • "utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims" (Swale, 221)
     • has acquired some specific "lexis" (language) (Swale, 222)
     • have changing members; need to balance novices and experts (222)
   • the idea of c\discourse communities are utopian/unrealistic, they do not consider tensions, arguments, discussions that take place in discourse communities (227)

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