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Bible: Discourse Community
A discourse community is a group of people who speak and share the same interests in certain topics, knowledge, and vocabulary; they also use similar jargons specific to that community. I belong to several discourse communities ranging from family, friends, and church to my ethnic group, weight watchers, and my classmates. The discourse community that I am going to discuss in this paper is the one that gets me motivated and eager to take part every Tuesday; it is the women’s bible club at my church. Our Bible club consists of twenty-five women and we meet every Tuesday to discuss different areas and topics of the Bible. We have certain unofficial rules that members of the group respect. These rules include the following: 1. Cell phones
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