Discourse Communities

Some articles on discourse, discourses, discourse communities:

Discourse Community
... 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 ... Linguist ,John Swales defined discourse communities as "groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals" ... Some examples of a discourse community might be those who read and/or contribute to a particular academic journal, or members of an email list for Madonna fans ...
James Paul Gee - Discourse/discourse - Discourse Communities
... Furthermore, being able to function within a Discourse may carry advantages in different situations ... For example, if a person is raised in a family of lawyers, the Discourses of politics or business may come very easily to that person ... In the United States, those are all Discourses of power and they are closely related ...

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