Discourse Communities--Local and Global.

摘要: complex of social formations. In the field composition and rhetoric, such systems have been described as "discourse communities." The term is useful in theory analysis writing because it embraces rhetorical concern with interchange (discourse) situation or context (community). But can lead analyst astray by prompting an uncritical acceptance "community" a "natural" element transcendental category. Because community, like discourse itself, "socially constructed"-by well people who claim membership-the act identifying communities never innocent, free ideological influences. As both Lester Faigley Joseph Harris noted, word community almost always used positively, herein lies its danger to analysis. If good, but perverse could question rebel against practices that sustain community? However, accept this irresistible goodness somehow prior ("above question") would amount abandoning key premise criticism-the idea (Bitzer), which demands acknowledge possibility transformation among elements aims discourse, including location. addition changing language minds, enterprise rhetoric suggests speakers writers power transform site itself. essay I argue defense adoption concept needs keep alive competing concepts communities, so alternatives exist description practices. Recent definitions established rather too-narrow foundation upon communitarian ethic. At present time, when liberalism's stock down, communitarianism appears be strong alternative for understanding relation government culture (Lasch). liberalism, organization depends two formations-the individual, may enjoy wide range rights freedoms at possible cost