Quote 1:”In consequence, when a university becomes established in a town, the presence of this constellation of discourse communities influences the wider urban environment; as a result, the urban environment provides services that are helpful to the university, such as cheap student housing, cheap restaurants, museums, and more bookshops, which in turn further consolidates our sense of a university town like Cambridge, Heidelberg, or Uppsala.”

I found this quote interesting because I didn’t know that a discourse Community worked this way. I find it interesting that It has enough power to influence the surrounding areas.

Quote 2:”A second set of problems is that the concept of discourse community as originally conceived was overly static.”

I found this quote interesting because in the paragraph before it talks about how a discourse community can influence the community in which it is in and also be influenced. So when it jumped to the problems of the concept it caught my attention. I didn’t think that they would have a problem in the way their plans worked.