I play soccer and I (sometimes) attend a church. These activities do not affect the way I participate in the other one because I view them as different parts of my life and don't consider how I do the one activity while doing the other.
Summary
In his article “Literacy, Discourse, and
Linguistics” James Paul Gee explains his concept of Discourse. He argues that a Discourse is place or group
where you act, value, believe, speak, and write a certain way while you are in
it. Discourses may have different
characteristics, such as being your primary Discourse (the first one you every
enter), a secondary Discourse (ones that you join), dominant, or non-dominant. Gee argues that you cannot engage in a
discourse but not be fluent in it. You must
be fluent in every one of your Discourse, otherwise you will be viewed as an
outsider.
Synthesis
This article relates to James Porter’s
article “Intertextuality and the Discourse Community” as well as John Swales’
article “The Concept of the Discourse Community.” What Gee just calls Discourse is what Porter
and Swales call the discourse community.
The main difference between Swales’ article and Gee’s article is that
Swales goes into detail about discourse communities and their properties while
Gee writes more about the kinds of Discourses and people’s relationships to
them.
Response
Gee managed to describe Disco urse in a way that was much more enjoyable to read than Swales with Discourse community. This article was actually interesting, I almost didn't fall asleep while reading. I also found this article way easier to understand than Swales' article
QD
1. Different groups of people in different places expect you to talk in different ways. If you are around people that don't use perfect grammar and use a certain slang, then to talk with perfect English and no slang would be wrong because you would be out of place. This conflicts with what I have been taught because I was never taught to consider talking with slang because of where I am.
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