The Wikipedia entry for "discourse community" explains that the community has a set of unwritten rules that govern its discourse (which is a concept much broader than "language"). Look at the two texts you read for homework, the Borg essay (academic discourse community) and the Wikipedia entry (Wikipedia discourse community). Choose one and try to come up with 2-3 of these unwritten rules that particular discourse might have. What kind of rules might either of these discourse communities have? How do you know?
--Elizabeth
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