Definitions:
Gee:
"Discourse is socially accepted association among ways of using language of thinking and of acting that can be used to identify oneself as member of socially meaningful group or a social net work".
Status in Discourse: The point of view on Discourse to an author.
Primary Discourse: thoughts beliefs, behaviors we quires as we grow up from our family members and intimates.
Secondary Discourse: knowledge skills we learn from our schools and work members and un intimates.
Swales:
"Lexis, a term used in linguistics to designate the total vocabulary of a language, or sometimes the vocabulary used in a particular text. The adjective lexical means ‘of vocabulary’ or sometimes ‘of dictionaries’. A lexicon is a dictionary, while a lexicographer is a person who compiles dictionaries and is thus a practitioner of lexicography".
Mascle:
Discourse community:" is a group of people who "speak the same language" or in other words people who share an interest in certain topics, share a body of knowledge about those topics, and possess a common vocabulary for discussing those topics."
"Discourse is socially accepted association among ways of using language of thinking and of acting that can be used to identify oneself as member of socially meaningful group or a social net work".
Status in Discourse: The point of view on Discourse to an author.
Primary Discourse: thoughts beliefs, behaviors we quires as we grow up from our family members and intimates.
Secondary Discourse: knowledge skills we learn from our schools and work members and un intimates.
Swales:
"Lexis, a term used in linguistics to designate the total vocabulary of a language, or sometimes the vocabulary used in a particular text. The adjective lexical means ‘of vocabulary’ or sometimes ‘of dictionaries’. A lexicon is a dictionary, while a lexicographer is a person who compiles dictionaries and is thus a practitioner of lexicography".
Mascle:
Discourse community:" is a group of people who "speak the same language" or in other words people who share an interest in certain topics, share a body of knowledge about those topics, and possess a common vocabulary for discussing those topics."