Stein’s purpose of his article, “In Defense of Domination”, as a professional writer is to narrate a story by using irony and sarcasm to draw attention and start a conversation about the US Military and its use in various placements around the globe regardless of the fallacies that exist within the United States itself.
Swales explains that speech communities are meant to include people or keep them centric, thus, people can inherit a speech community. However, discourse communities are considered centrifugal because their intentions are to create separation and distinguishment. You must be invited or recruited into a discourse community.
According to Swales, the 6 tenants of a discourse community are:
- A broadly agreed upon set of common public goals
- Mechanisms of intercommunication among its members
- Uses its mechanisms of involvement to provide information and feedback
- Possesses more than one communicative genre in order to further its aims
- Acquired lexis in addition to the genres
- Members with mastery or knowledge of content
Problems with discourse community is that it requires uniformity and the restrictions thus often contradict themselves. It allows no room for individuality. It is also language barring. This makes this unrealistic.
Dive Into Discourse 