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Discourse community

A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about those goals. Linguist John Swales defined discourse communities as "groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals."

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History and definition

SociolinguistMartin NystrandJohn SwalesEnglish as an additional languageGenres
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Culture

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Development of online discourse communities

Social networkCommunity of practiceCognitive anthropology
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Genre analysisOrganizational communicationA public space
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History and definition

Development of online discourse communities

Culture

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Discourse community

Nodes30
Edges29
Triples25
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.066667
Components1

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Discourse community

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related to Culture · 9
Discourse community → Discourse, Gilbert, However, In, Their, There, These, With, Yerrick
related to Development of online discourse communities · 8
Discourse community → According, Although John Swales, Berkenkotter, In, Just, Swales, These, Virtual
related to Designing a discourse community · 5
Discourse community → As, One, The, This, What
is a · 3
Discourse community → group of people who share a set of discourses, map, textual system with stated and unstated conventions

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discourse community communities members people goals academic may set swales within terms genres term common journal email list used one

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Discourse communityis agroup of people who share a set of discourses0.90text
Discourse communityis atextual system with stated and unstated conventions0.90text
Discourse communityis amap0.90text
Discourse communityrelated to CultureDiscourse0.60section
Discourse communityrelated to CultureThese0.60section
Discourse communityrelated to CultureHowever0.60section
Discourse communityrelated to CultureIn0.60section
Discourse communityrelated to CultureYerrick0.60section
Discourse communityrelated to CultureGilbert0.60section
Discourse communityrelated to CultureTheir0.60section
Discourse communityrelated to CultureWith0.60section
Discourse communityrelated to CultureThere0.60section

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