Six Characteristics Of A Discourse Community
You and I from part of many different discourse communities even though we don’t realize it, but we actually get ourselves involved without even knowing. Discourse communities are everywhere not just in schools, colleges, nor churches they are all over our community. From interacting with your roommate in your dorm to since club you are involved they are all discourse communities. Dancing by its self won’t function as a discourse community but once we talk about Dance Teams we are creating a discourse community within dancing. According to Swales in Writing About Writing he states, “We need then to clarify, for procedural purposes, what is to be understood by discourse community and, perhaps in the present circumstances, it is better to offer
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The criteria has six characteristics that it has to meet which are: having common goals, participatory mechanisms, information exchange, community specific genras, a highly specialized terminology and a high general level of expertise (Swales, 2011 para 21). The first characteristic, “A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals” (Swales, 2011 para 11). This means that there is a purpose for every discourse that is being created or for those that already exists. These types of goals are public and can be high level or abstract. Second characteristic says, “A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members” (2011, para 12). This doesn’t mean that all the discourse …show more content…
A dance team mean goal is to show their great talent as dancer and give a great performance to a crowd of people. The way they a dance team communicates is by telephones, e-mails, schedules, and meetings. In order to be able to form part of this discourse you have to be part of a dance team, just because you know how to dance doesn’t mean you are part of the discourse. In a dance team there is always new music coming along and the dance teams have to be able to interpret this music with what skills they have and acquire new skills as well. The lexis of dancing comes from some French words. To meet the last characteristic of the criteria a the dance teams have a variety of dance teams young and
The criteria has six characteristics that it has to meet which are: having common goals, participatory mechanisms, information exchange, community specific genras, a highly specialized terminology and a high general level of expertise (Swales, 2011 para 21). The first characteristic, “A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals” (Swales, 2011 para 11). This means that there is a purpose for every discourse that is being created or for those that already exists. These types of goals are public and can be high level or abstract. Second characteristic says, “A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members” (2011, para 12). This doesn’t mean that all the discourse …show more content…
A dance team mean goal is to show their great talent as dancer and give a great performance to a crowd of people. The way they a dance team communicates is by telephones, e-mails, schedules, and meetings. In order to be able to form part of this discourse you have to be part of a dance team, just because you know how to dance doesn’t mean you are part of the discourse. In a dance team there is always new music coming along and the dance teams have to be able to interpret this music with what skills they have and acquire new skills as well. The lexis of dancing comes from some French words. To meet the last characteristic of the criteria a the dance teams have a variety of dance teams young and