Speech community vs Discourse community, Slide di Lingua Inglese

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Speech community

and

Discourse Community

Definition of community:

• “A group of people with a

shared set of

activities,practices,beliefs

and social structure”

Social network: Another way of describing a particular speech community in terms of relations among its individual members. Tight community : all members of one group interacting with each other Looser community : little interaction among the members of a group

Definition of 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”
• (^) “ groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals” (John Swales)