When looking at a particular discursive community, you may come across a number of genres that are conveniently applied to articles oriented towards the discursive community. When looking at the stock market debate, the two genres that appear most often are news articles and analysis articles. Both of these genres can be written with an intended audience of people within the discursive community or people outside the discursive community. The key point of differentiation is the language used when writing. It can be written using terminology that only people within the discourse community understand, or in such a way that everyone understands exactly what the author means. By comparing these two genres and audiences, we can better understand how the stock exchange discourse community is represented not only among its insiders, but also among everyone else. The first genre type that will be examined is the news article. type. This is the main genre used to convey news and events about'...
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