ENGL292 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Scottish Country Dance, Stamp Collecting, Speech Community

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL292
• Professor: Nadine Gingrich

Document Summary

Discourse communities are social rhetorical networks that form to work towards a set of common goals. Members with a suitable degree of rhetoric, contextual experience. Maintain group"s knowledge and initiate members into the group. Bring new people into the group so that they could be connected in a certain way. Thinking can become so constituted by the discourse community that you have trouble getting apart from the community. Discourse limits information that you can give to someone. Discourse is a social group that uses language to do a type of work. Communication and group solidarity are important in a speech community. Speech communities are dependent on communication and syntax. Born into it, raised in it, take on that way of speaking because that"s what we hear around us. By choice, objectives that are prior to communication and solidarity. Discourse community may form for professional organizations, alumni, etc.