“The Concept of Community Discourse”
- Who is the writer of this article (like more than his name–what important, pertinent info can you found out about him online)? John Swales is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics, he is an academic.
- Who do you think he imagined as his perfect audience of readers? His audience would be academics, Linguists.
- What do you think, in your own words, is the issue this article is trying to address? The issue that this article is trying to address is the difference between Discoursed communities and Speech communities.
- In your own words, what do you think that Swales imagined as the gap between what he had found out about discourse community versus what his readers already knew about the concept of discourse community? There is still a misunderstanding of Discourse community so he came up with SIX characteristics that will help identify them.
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