Answered questions of “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 the writer of this article, he is 82 years old. He is a linguist best known for his work on genre analysis. In 1987 he was appointed Professor of Linguistics and Director of the English Language Institute from 1985 to 2001. He has written or co-written 20 books and about 130 research articles or book chapters.
- Who do you think he imagined as his perfect audience of readers?
I feel he imagined confident readers as his perfect audience. People that can think about goals they have for themselves or talk about things and share their feelings. I think his readers will people that are successful or that strive to be successful.
- What do you think, in your own words, is the issue this article is trying to address?
In this article, they are trying to address the issue about
- 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?
Swales wanted discourse community to be known as a group of people that come together to communicate about a certain topic or issue. He feels it is defined between six characteristics. A discourse community has “a broadly agreed set of common public goals”, “mechanisms of intercommunication among their members”, “it’s participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback”, “utilized and possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims”, “acquired some specific lexis” and lastly “a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discoursal expertise”.
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