Discourse community and speech community are similar in the sense that they are both groups of people with common beliefs and common goals. They both have a specific kind of language they use when communicating about these goals and beliefs. However, they’re not the same.
When it comes to speech communities, it is a certain type of language spoke by a group of people. It is more social, face-to-face communication. Examples of speech communities would be a group of friends, a sports team, a local organization, church group, ect. Groups of people who socialize often discussing the same goals and beliefs. Unconsciously or consciously, speech communities can be speech communities.
Discourse communities have their specific goals and beliefs, but these are often discussed through distance. When it comes to any type of discourse community, sometimes communication comes from phone calls, letters, texts, and maybe sometimes things like meetings. The grouping of socio-rhetorical describes discourse, more of preforming and doing rather than just speaking. An example of a discourse community could be a large business or franchise. Everyone who works for that specific company has common goals and looks to succeed them, but they discuss those goals through meetings, emails, phone calls. Not always face-to-face. Discourse communities are typically considered persuasive, which makes sense to me when I use a business as an example.
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