Swales and Gee are conversing about what it means to be in a discourse community. Swales has 6 points about what a discourse community is, or what it means to belong to be in a discourse community. These 6 points range from certain lingo a discourse community may use to what it take fro a discourse community to survive. Swales points also mention what goals a discourse community have or are trying to accomplish. Gee is a little more cut-throat with his views on a discourse community. He says that you can belong or not belong to a discourse community. Gee says that we mushfake or BS are way through certain communities, but not officially belong to that certain discourse community. Unlike Swales who believes that we can kind of be involved in discourse communities.
I think that Johns major difference is she describes what sacrifices people need to make to be in a certain discourse community. In WAW she gave 2 examples of how people lost or sacrificed their families or friends in academia to belong to a higher discourse community. She also mentions things about conventionalism and anticonventionalism, she says that the longer a person stays in a certain discourse community, the more that the person can break the rules. Johns also says that there are many discourse communities to belong to like, the arts, sports, and humanities.
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