Discourse Community- A group of people who share a set of discourses (basic values and assumptions) and ways of communicating about those goals.
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What are the 6 Defining Characteristics of a Disco
A discourse community:
Has an agreed set of common public goals
Has ways of intercomunication between its members
Uses the comunitive ways to provide infomation and feedback to each other
Possesses one or more genres within the group comunication
Due to owning genres, they have a specific lexis
Has a threshold of members with a degree of context and discoursal expertise
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Producing a Text Within a Discourse Community
If someone wants to join a discourse community (for example, mums net, online), they can not just write about anything.
The preson has to not only know the lexis and language used but also the concepts and expectations.
For example, if someone wanted to join mums net, they cant just write about anything, it would have to be in relation to a paretal issue or question.
Thus, the producing of a text cannot take place unless the writer can define their goals in terms of the discourse communitys' context and common public goals.
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