It is a well-known fact that each person able to speak and listen participates in this or that discourse community, as all of us can and always create the discourse texts.
As far as I am personally concerned, I belong to the accounting discourse community, first. Accounting is my major at school and I spend the great deal of my time trying to penetrate deeply into the subject matter of this particular field of study. And, without a doubt, I have to live in the accounting community discourse as some of my friends and the people surrounding me are involved into accounting as a subject. Moreover, the modern life is based on the economic principles, we are everyday counting either money, or our taxes, or we see the prices in the supermarket, discuss them and, therefore, participate in this discourse community.
Besides, I belong to the youth discourse community as I am a young person. I think that none will argue that the youth has its own specific lexis, genres and problems that affect the text producing of the discourse. More than that I am the member of the society and this makes me belong to the various discourse communities of it, no matter who participates in it and what languages they use (social security discourse, street communication discourse, school discourse, etc).
All discourse texts can be of different genres. Thus, for instance, in case of the accounting discourse community to which I belong there can be at least three different genres of the discourse texts, such as the genre of producers, the genre of the customers and the genre of brand awareness. The first concerns itself with texts and lexis that the producers mainly use (adds commercials, accounts and business reports, etc.), the second deals with customers’ viewpoint to the service provided and to the actions of the producers and their teams, whereas the genre of brand awareness can be characterized as the one combining the both sides and dealing with the famous trade marks (the so-called "brands") and the customer’s awareness of them and the producer’s desire to create a new brand or to drive the sales of an already existing one. The discourse texts that are produced during that tag-like game are sometimes very difficult to be created by an uninitiated person, as well as to be used or read. Nevertheless, the unity of a good effort, persistence, necessity or need and the fact of being surrounded by (or even existing in it) this particular discourse makes me learn it and understand how and why I need to be able to write, to read and to use the texts of the accounting discourse community. From my own experience I would like to stress that for a non-native speaker of English it is rather complicated and sometimes even boring to study the accounting discourse community texts. The lexis and grammar seem to be the first problem, as the use of some specific terms and word-combinations together with the specific grammar constructions complicates the understanding of them. One more problem I personally faced is the difficulty to retrieve the right information from this permanent "flood" of accounting problems, especially in the course of my studies. First I could not simply understand what was needed so that I could start searching for the details. I had to start studying this very problem of discourse genres and their lexis on forums, on the Internet. To say it was the Kilkenny cats' fight would mean saying nothing at all. It has been the persistent surfing on web-sites in order to get the basic information first, than to extend it, slowly trying to put every piece of information to its own place. Finally, everything settled down in my head.
