While reading John Swales’ “The Concept of Discourse Community” he defines a discourse community as having “six defining characteristics” (471). A discourse community I am familiar with would be high school varsity volleyball. We as a team come together for the love of the sport and want to play at a competitive level. As for our “mechanisms of intercommunication among its members” (Swales 471) we have practice which allows us to communicate about up coming games and events. Within practices we do multiple drills that work on different skills while our coaches give us feedback and help. I believe other genres involved in the discourse community of high school varsity volleyball would be the genre of sports, extra curricular activities, and athletes. Volleyball has it’s own specific lexis including the different terms used while playing such as; spiking, bumping, serving, setting, and many more. As all high school varsity sports there is a try-out period every year where the best players are chosen for the top positions. It is always changing and students are consistently given chances to join. This is only one discourse community I am familiar with.
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