- John Swales has been everywhere. He was born in the UK, went to various private schools but ended up graduating from Queen’s College Cambridge in England, went to teach in Italy for two years, then taught in Sweden for one year, then became an assistant lecturer in Libya, then taught in Sudan, then returned to the UK to teach, then moved to Michigan where he taught at the University of Michigan where he eventually retired. Having retained this much community discourse knowledge around the world, I would assume he would be a master of linguistics and knowledge about community discourse.
- I would assume scholars who understand this line of academic information and whom thoroughly enjoy reading dry information about discourse community and speech community.
- To inform readers of discourse community. The issue being portrayed throughout the text is how John Swales is trying to inform the readers of how different groups and organizations sometimes don’t see eye to eye, and dialogue written to inform a certain audience can be taken a wrong way depending on how the certain group within the audience views the text. If you say “you people” to a certain group of people in speech, this can be retained as negative if the speech by that certain group of people.
- The gap, what I believe, is that certain reader’s were not informed about what causes discourse community. In other words, they are misinformed about what fuels the drive behind what causes different groups to view themselves as different.
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