- Gee defines Discourses (capital D) as “saying (writing)-doing-being-valuing, believing combinations” (6). Explain why this “combination” is important for Gee? Gee offers a couple examples. Offer your own example of a Discourse in your response.
I believe these combinations are important for Gee because they are really kinda a guideline for your own personal views and what you maybe believe in or think is the right idea or the right way. My own example:
Saying(writing)-attempting-believing-supporting
- Gee writes, “While you can teach someone linguistics, a body of knowledge, you can’t teach them to be a linguist” (7). If so, how does one become a linguist, a sociologist, a biologist, a veterinarian, a historian, etc? Be sure to use at least one passage from Gee to support your response and quote it.
“The most you can do is to let them practice being a linguist with you.”(pg. 7)
The way i believe you become a linguist is to practice and also interact and learn from people who are linguist. The only way to become linguist is to practice it. No one is born linguist so therefore anyone essentially can become linguist.
Write a blog post that takes up each of the following three questions – each response must be at least 150 words long:
- Conversations: “These combinations I call “Discourses” with a capital “D” (“discourse” with a little “d” to me, means connected stretches of language that make sense so “discourses” is part of “Discourses”) I think here Gee is really engaged because he is explaining to the reader what he believes and is trying to maybe convince the reader to accept or believe the same thing.
- Questions: I had a couple questions on pg 6 first paragraph, where it is a dialogue with a girl talking about her initiative in a previous job. At the end it says “it just won’t get you this type of job in this type of society.” I don’t really understand why. Why is the writer judging that off of just her language and the way she may have used words and what she was doing while saying those words? I don’t really understand that.
- Text-to-Self: In the passage where Gee says “Discourses are ways of being in the world; they are forms of life which integrate words, acts, values, beliefs, attitudes, and social identities as well as gestures, glances, body positions, and clothes.” I agree with what Gee says here, because in a way i think all of these things are actions and values i guess that you can hold yourself to. For example; “acts”(maybe means do acts of kindness), “values”(maybe means have good/high values), “beliefs”(maybe means have some sort of belief system that holds yourself to a higher standard), “attitudes”(maybe means always have a good attitude no matter the situation), “gestures”(maybe means small meaningful gestures like holding the door for someone or saying thank you), “glances”(honestly I’m not sure what Gee means with this word), “body positions”(maybe means having good body posture?) “clothes”(maybe means wear the kind of clothes that you want to be i guess “defined” in or what you what your appearance to look like)
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