The Discourse Community in Scientific and Technical Communication: Institutional and Social Views
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Technical Writing and Communication
- Vol. 19 (1) , 1-11
- https://doi.org/10.2190/h6fn-3mkt-qab2-tan6
Abstract
Theoretical studies in scientific and technical communication have begun to explore what they call discourse communities in the sciences and engineering on grounds that these communities provide the norms and practices for communication in these fields. The theoretical literature on which these studies are based develops two views of what a discourse community might be, an institutional and a social view. The first of these views has been the more influential, but both views may and should be brought to the study and the pedagogy of scientific and technical communication.Keywords
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