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- Oct 2019
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A speech community typically inherits its member-ship by birth, accident or adoption; a discourse community recruits its mem-bers by persuasion, training or relevant qualification.
This seems interesting. It is basically saying that in Swales's perspective, he sees speech communities as something that people join through accident or birth, but with discourse communities, Swales sees it as having to actively recruit members into their ranks in order to thrive.
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He is good, however, at highlighting his main claims and defining his terms, so if you pay close attention, he should clear up most of your confusion. If he uses terms that he does not define, and with which you are not familiar (for example, lexis), be sure to take a moment to look them up in a dictionary.
Swales's writing style
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parochiality
Unsure of this word. If an issue or matter is parochial, it is trivial or only concerns a local area. Someone with a parochial mentality would be narrow-minded and is not open to new ideas.
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discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals. 11 These public goals may be formally inscribed in documents (as is often the case with associations and clubs), or they may be more tacit. The goals are public,
Discourse is important as this is how we communicate in the social world that we live and work in.
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style of Swales's writing
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