For many people, the teenage years are considered as the most decisive of an individual’s life. Physical growth, emotional maturation, and character formation are a few of the important process that happen during this phase, but as if isn’t enough, teenagers also have to deal with self-acceptance and adaptation into new types of communities. The most challenging community to fit in, might be a discourse community, where people have certain unspoken rules; traditions; a specific language (lexis); a specific genre; common goals, and different mechanisms.
For many people, the teenage years are considered as the most decisive of an individual’s life. Physical growth, emotional maturation, and character formation are a few of the important process that happen during this phase, but as if isn’t enough, teenagers also have to deal with self-acceptance and adaptation into new types of communities. The most challenging community to fit in, might be a discourse community, where people have certain unspoken rules; traditions; a specific language (lexis); a specific genre; common goals, and different mechanisms.