Justin Miller
Billy Middleton
29 August 2013
The main thing the passage "The Concept of Discourse Community" got me thinking about was other examples of a discourse community. Being a fan of sports, I started thinking of if a football team would count as one. Thinking about it a bit, a team has its own goals, lexicon, membership criterion, and way of communicating. So a team like that seems to fit the bill to some degree.
This led me to think deeper. How about internet communities? What if a group of people went on the same message board or chat room long enough to develop their own abbreviations and added meaning to words? How about the very first characteristic? "A discourse community has a broadly agreed set of public goals." (5) The goals of most internet communities seem, at first glance, to just be hanging out, chatting, and playing video games. So the main thought I have about all this is just how specific the criterion is for discourse communities.
