Discourse community
Swales (1990) found that a discourse community
has a
broadly agreed set of common public goals
has
mechanisms of intercommunication among its members
uses its
participatory mechanisms primarily to provide information and feedback
utilizes and
hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative utterance of its
aims
has acquired
some specific lexis (specialized terminology, acronyms)
has a threshold level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and
discoursal expertise.
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