CL 2/6

I don’t have much interest at all for this particular topic and I tend to lose even more interest when the reading is mandatory
I’m finding it difficult to find the significance of specifically defining discourse communities or the use of such a definition of it’s accomplished.
What is the use or purpose of this concept?
1) I believe Swales sees the gap in this conversation as the insufficient defining of the concept of discourse communities. There is somewhat of a foundation for this concept but the fact that it is still being confused with other similar concepts (speech communities) or even misused at times is telling him there needs to be more succinct and precise parameters defining this term.
2) He begins to lay out more precise parameters to make this concept more definable and point to the flaws that he is still encountering in hopes that someone else can build on top of his work.
3) I think his audience is colleagues within his field who can expand on his work or assist him.
4) It’s hard for me to see any danger in an essay like this. I’m lacking too much knowledge about this topic and this field to make and educated opinion on the possible pitfalls of debating this concept.

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