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?