'Discourse': "A socially accepted association among ways of using language, of thinking, and of acting that can be used to identify oneself as a member of a socially meaningful group or social network"
I understand that a lot of what has been say by James Paul Gee is true and I can relate to this reading. I believe we do as a society put labels on people for speaking a certain way or talking a certain way. For example, sometimes when a student talks when automatically know that they are from the inner-city or have some influence of the inner city because they speak with a slang. And that can also relate to social class because people from the inner-city that speak a certain way are from a bad neighborhood and tend to be poor. James Paul Gee calls this concept "Identity kit."
And another thing that he talked about that I agree with is that we change the way we talk in different social events. If we are at the job, we speak different then we would if we were at a nightclub or school. I agree with a lot of what has been said in this article and that in order for us to understand what is Literacy we must understand Discourse.
No comments:
Post a Comment