Six Characteristics Of Discourse Community

James Paul Gee defines discourse communities as a way of life, which consolidates with language and texts (Gee, 274). He goes to say that discourses are used to create meaning to activities or to “get things done or not” (Gee, 275). According to Swales, there are six characteristics in order to be entitled a discourse community. The characteristics are as following:
"[It has] A broadly agreed set of common public goals, [It has] mechanisms of intercommunication among its members (such as newsletters or journals), [It] utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims. [It] uses its participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback, In addition to owning genres, [it] has acquired some specific lexis. [It has] a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise. (Johns, 321)."
Considering these characteristics, discourse communities are perceived as an assortment group of diverse individuals who share "genres, language, values, concepts, and "ways of being" (Johns, 322)." In order to fully understand how discourse communities use language to function and accomplish their purposes and goals, I researched and studied the Muslim Community.
Also, it not only meets Swales's criteria of a discourse community but I get to learn how language is incorporated in the way we do things.. For instance, one of the six defining characteristics is that the group share an agreed upon set of goals. Although there are many goals, this communities' main goals are to expand the faith and beliefs of Islam among its believers while obtaining good morals and being closer to