Post 14

1)      A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of common public goals

*Swales is trying to say that people in the discourse community have a known agenda or goals.  Everyone knows whats intended or whats trying to be achieved without being said.  My example is our rugby team, the goal is to dominate and it doesn’t need to be said

2)  A discourse community has mechanisms of intercommunication among its members.

                *Swales is saying that members of a discourse community have their own lingo or inside language.  A good example of this is the inside jokes we have on our team, I would never use the same language around people of authority as I do with the rugby team.

3)  A discourse community uses its participary mechanisms primarily to provide info ans feedback.

                *I think swales is saying that member of the DC look for different outlets of info to better enhance themselves.  Like getting more opinions from different sources.  I think of this getting injured but getting second even third opinions from doctors, just to see whats going on,

4)A discourse community utilizes and hence possesses one or more genres in the communicative furtherance of its aims.

                * I think this means that having one or more people with different talents to achieve goals or be more versitiile.  Again I go back to the rugby team, we have really fast kids playing the outside, the big trees in the front of the scrum, and the sure-tacklers at flanker.  All mixed together for a well oiled machine.

5)In addition to owning genres, a DC has acquired some specific lexis.

                * I believe this means a DC has its own Technical lingo that they understand.  Kind of like calling out plays for a quarterback. “roger” means the plays going right.  “Louie” means the plays going left.

6)A DC has a threshold level of members with a sutable degree of relevant content and discourse expense.

                *I think this refers to expiernce overall.  As time goes on people get older and know whats going on.  A veteran member of any kind of sports team will teach the rookies all they need to know