- John Malcolm Swales was born in 1983, he is a famous linguist known for his literature genre analysis in the academic community. He graduated from Queens’ College in Cambridge in 1957 with a degree in psychology; which most likely attributes itself to why he enjoys analyzing literature, and also why he wrote so many parallels between psychology and discourse communities in his work The Concept of Community Discourse. Swales also took many different courses of academic literature and resided in a few select positions in the same community, this is also why he most likely writes as if the reader is one of his peers. It has most likely become a habit from years of living solely in the literature engrossed community to write with such a high academic caliber.
- Swales’ ideal audience was probably someone in the academic community, most likely a classroom of students in a literature class; his verbiage and general structure of his essay feels like it was meant to be placed in a literature classroom to be analyzed by the class and professor. Kind of like what we’re doing right now in English Composition 2089.
- The “issue” the article seems to be trying to address seems to be the distinct difference between a discourse community and a speech community AND the strong definition of a discourse community as a stand alone term.
- Swales seemed to think that the “gap” in this discussion was the strong definition and differentiation of the term “discourse community.” Whereas for me, as a reader, his essay seemed to be repetitive of a concept I already grasped; however, for a standard run-of-the-mill person, once you could work your way through his verbiage and structure, he seemed to draw a pretty clear and concise version of what he viewed the definition of a discourse community to be and why it was so vastly different from a speech community. As a reader, I very much enjoyed his parallels to the psychology aspect of literature communities as well because I believe that both those concepts often go hand in hand with each other.
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