Discourse community is a group of people who communicate with each other with the same goal. James Paul Gee wrote “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction”, James E. Porter wrote” Intersexuality and the Discourse Community”, and John Swales wrote “the Concept of Discourse Community”. They express the ideas on discourse communities; but they also have some similarities on the ideas of discourse communities. Gee and Swales have the similar idea on the importance of social practice in discourse community, it can help group members to communicate with each other with lexical words. Swales and Porter have the similar idea on people can take part in different discourse community. Porter and Gee have the similar idea on the ability and
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People who want to take part in the discourse community should take more practice on society to improve their ability and get knowledge, and then they can have more experience to take part in discourse communities when they enter into high school and college. The reason that Gee point out the problem that people need more practice, because John Swales said that people need to know some lexis word so they can take part in the discourse community. In “the Concept of Discourse Community”, John Swales lists six defining characteristics which can find out a group of people in a discourse community includes “In addition to owning genres, a discourse community has a acquired some specific lexis. Finally, a discourse community has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of revelant content and discoursal experise” (220-222). Based on the six characteristics, people in the discourse community should have same goal and they should have the similar …show more content…
People may belong to some discourse communities at the same time, the idea of Swales is similar with Porter, people have different identities on society so they may be in different communities. In “Intersexuality and the Discourse Community” James E. Porter claims that discourse community is organized by a group of people who have the similar interests and he also said “an individual may belong to several professional, public, or personal discourse communities. Examples would include the community of engineers whose research area is fluid mechanics, alumni of the University of Michigan; Magnavox employees; the members of the Porter family; and the member of the Indiana Teachers of Writing”(400). People may have different identities in school, family, and company. Thus, people may be in different discourse communities at the same time. Both Swales and Porter claims that people can belong to different discourse communities. I have the same experience because I have different identities at the same time. For example, I am studying in the University of Oklahoma, so I am a student at OU. I am a member of OU society of Chinese Student and Scholars. OU and OU society of Chinese Student and Scholars are two different discourse communities, but I belong to these communities at the same time. I have the
People who want to take part in the discourse community should take more practice on society to improve their ability and get knowledge, and then they can have more experience to take part in discourse communities when they enter into high school and college. The reason that Gee point out the problem that people need more practice, because John Swales said that people need to know some lexis word so they can take part in the discourse community. In “the Concept of Discourse Community”, John Swales lists six defining characteristics which can find out a group of people in a discourse community includes “In addition to owning genres, a discourse community has a acquired some specific lexis. Finally, a discourse community has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of revelant content and discoursal experise” (220-222). Based on the six characteristics, people in the discourse community should have same goal and they should have the similar …show more content…
People may belong to some discourse communities at the same time, the idea of Swales is similar with Porter, people have different identities on society so they may be in different communities. In “Intersexuality and the Discourse Community” James E. Porter claims that discourse community is organized by a group of people who have the similar interests and he also said “an individual may belong to several professional, public, or personal discourse communities. Examples would include the community of engineers whose research area is fluid mechanics, alumni of the University of Michigan; Magnavox employees; the members of the Porter family; and the member of the Indiana Teachers of Writing”(400). People may have different identities in school, family, and company. Thus, people may be in different discourse communities at the same time. Both Swales and Porter claims that people can belong to different discourse communities. I have the same experience because I have different identities at the same time. For example, I am studying in the University of Oklahoma, so I am a student at OU. I am a member of OU society of Chinese Student and Scholars. OU and OU society of Chinese Student and Scholars are two different discourse communities, but I belong to these communities at the same time. I have the