After you complete the reading, start to explore your selected Discourse Community by answering the following questions:
- How would you categorize the community connection (residential, social, hobby, academic, professional, social justice . . . ?)
- What digital or print resources did you locate?
- Where does the group’s primary communication occur and how is intercommunication facilitated?
- What genres can you identify in the communications you located?
- What examples of a specific lexis have you identified in the written communication of the discourse community?
- What are the main intentions of the communication and what is communicated?
- Who leads and how is authority established?
- Are visual and nonverbal communication techniques established? Which?
- Swales suggests that a University creates a constellation of discourse communities. Which other discourse communities are connected to your discourse community and how?
