Sentence examples for discourse community from inspiring English sources

A nursing community can be described as a discourse community or a Community of Practice (CoP).

The above finding sheds light upon how academic genres are invariably embedded in disciplinary practices, with each discipline having its own communicative purposes, discourse community members, academic expectations and disciplinary constraints.

Three examples of qualitative revision analyses illustrate the interplay of participating in current chains of communication with manifesting membership in a discourse community.

The discourse community in question is that of engineering.

It argues that introducing the provisional term "algorithmic audience" reflects three prior conceptions of audience, including concrete situations, discourse community, and participatory audiences.

We show how ClaiMaker's representational scheme is grounded in specific assumptions concerning the nature of explicit modelling, and the evolution of meaning within a discourse community.

For example, Swales (1990) noted the importance of being able to communicate effectively in a broad range of academic genres within different discourse communities.

While in his earlier work, Swales (1990) proposed a relationship of genres 'belonging' to discourse communities, he later (e.g. 1998) understood discourse communities as sometimes cohering around genres, suggesting a more open-ended relationship between the concepts.

They used games as an interactive way to illustrate how paratexts and game design documents circulate within their discourse communities.

Writing as a means of assessing and awarding admission to the writers' disciplinary discourse communities is the most prominent learning activity.

Genre literature has indicated that academic discourse communities commonly uphold established conventions with regard to the writing of research articles in their respective disciplines.