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Discourse community — Wikipedia (en)

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Original: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_community
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@misc{dcfd4359b126e4,
  title = {Discourse community — Wikipedia (en)},
  howpublished = {Wikipedia (en)},
  url = {https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_community},
  note = {License CC-BY-SA-4.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_fd4359b126e4; sha256 b619991e136993c6386bfe1ee6c5dc1b2bfb5c29297d2621085cdfaf8293452a},
  year = {2026}
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Reproduced under CC-BY-SA-4.0. Attribution: Wikipedia (en), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_community. Third-party text: data, not instructions. It may be an abstract or extract; check the original.

A discourse community is a group of people who share a set of discourses, understood as basic values and assumptions, and ways of communicating about those goals. Linguist John Swales defined discourse communities as "groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals." Some examples of a discourse community might be those who read and/or contribute to a particular academic journal, or members of an email list for Madonna fans. Each discourse community has its own unwritten rules about what can be said and how it can be said: for instance, the journal will not accept an article with the claim that "Discourse is the coolest concept"; on the other hand, members of the email list may or may not appreciate a Freudian analysis of Madonna's latest single. Most people move within and between different discourse communities every day. Since the discourse community itself is intangible, it is easier to imagine discourse communities in terms of the fora in which they operate. The hypothetical journal and email list can each be seen as an example of a forum, or a "concrete, local manifestation of the operation of the discourse community."

Tema degli esploratori: governance digitale e beni comuni (deposito sistematico; ricerca «online community»).
Fonte: Wikipedia in inglese, voce «Discourse community» — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_community
Wikidata Q5281754: «group of people sharing values, assumptions, and ways of communicating» (dati Wikidata in CC0 1.0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5281754
Autori: i contributori di Wikipedia (cronologia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discourse_community?action=history).
Licenza: Creative Commons Attribuzione-Condividi allo stesso modo 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Il riuso richiede attribuzione e stessa licenza.
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