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Balester, Valerie – 1986
Communities of one sort or another are found in the literature of many disciplines and are used to explain any number of things: linguists examine language in terms of speech communities, while composition researchers write of discourse communities. Linguists have advanced various definitions of communities, but Stanley Fish's "Is There a…
Descriptors: Community, Connected Discourse, Critical Thinking, Discourse Analysis


