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The introduction of the writer was definitely spot on. At first the content of the article was dry, boring, and hard to follow but after I continued to read, everything started to make more sense. The beginning of the passage was important to read because it gave me the information I needed to better comprehend the rest of the text. As I read on further, I came across a quote that said discourse communities are a cluster of ideas: that language use in a group is a form of social behavior, that discourse is a means of maintaining and extending the group's knowledge and of initiating new members into the group, and that discourse is epistemic or constitutive of the group's knowledge. In this one sentence alone, I obtained a better understanding and new way of looking at discourse communities. I also gathered that speech communities and discourse communities differ in the sense that speech community inherits individuals by birth or adoption as oppose to recruiting them through a discourse community. From this example, it seems to me that speech communities are directly related to primary discourses. The 6 characteristics that help identify a group of individuals as a discourse community was pretty straightforward. My favorite characteristic was number 2 about the caf owner example. Basically what it says is that, even if a group of people engage in the same career choice, but never interact with one another, they still have a line of communication and an acquired discourse community. They all shared the same genre skills, and responsibilities. Overall, this article helped me learn more of discourse communities in a better way by providing me with examples that relate to the real world.
In this post, I use the characteristic of being analytical because I had to understand and analyze the information found within the text to create a definition of a discourse community. Although the meaning of a discourse community was not directly given, I could use the context clues around it to produce a definition. I also analyzed information of speech communities and how they differ from discourse communities. A speech community inherits individuals through adoption or birth while in discourse communities, their members are recruited. In my analysis, speech communities are related to primary discourses which are the biggest difference between the two from the analyzed information from this text.