FASHION DESIGNER’S DISCOURSE COMMUNITY

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FASHION DESIGNER’S DISCOURSE COMMUNITY
Introduction
A discourse community is a group of people with a set of similar goals and is involved in interaction with a particular issue, field or topic. Discourse communities may be simple church groups, sports team, youth group or complex groups like a hard rock band. A community has to meet certain characteristics for it to merit the definition of a discourses community. These characteristics are described by Swales and other scholars as the principle determinants of a discourse community. Besides, discourse communities are unique in the way they operate thus making them easily distinguishable from other non-discourse communities. The restrictive manner in which discourse communities conduct their activities also acts as a means of showing how they are unique as compared to other communities.
According to (Swales, 297), the exact definition of a discourse community is determined by paying more attention to a Discourse Community concept. Swales states six qualities that a community must possess for it to merit as a discourse community. According to Swales, a community must possess a set of similar public goals that rare broadly agreed upon by all members of the community. The goals of a discourse community may be in formal documents and kept private, or may be made public. People join discourse communities for individual interest, professional backgrounds or other personal matte…