Discourse Community

Question 1

What is Community of Practice

Answer 1

A group of people who share the same understanding, perspective, concern or a passion for something they do

Question 2

John Swales (2011) - Discourse Community

Answer 2

• Share a set of common goals.
• Communicate internally, using + ‘owning’ one or more genres of communication.
• Use specialist lexis and discourse.
• Have a required level of knowledge + skills to be considered eligible to participate in the community.