Month: March 2018

5 and 6

The saying(writing)-doing-being-valuing-believing combination.

It is important because, according to Gee, one must have all of these qualities to be “in” the Discourse. He refers to the neighborhood bar guy and he did not have all of them so he is not in the Discourse.

What if someone sees it as using all of the saying-doing-being-valuing-believing combinations, but one sees one of the components missing. Are they in the Discourse?

7 and 8

It is the Discourse that “we first use to make sense of the world and interact with others”. So basically, it is the Discourse you accomplish from when you are a young kid.

One’s Primary Discourse can shape their other Discourses in life. For example, if someone is an uneducated young boy, they will not be in the Discourse of college per say.

I do not like how if someone has a bad primary Discourse and how they can’t get out of it, because it is natural.

9

They discourse we gain through social groups, institutions and organizations. Being an athlete, and being apart of a team, for example, is a secondary discourse

It is important because social interactions are very important and this is how one achieves secondary Discourse.

If one associates themselves with a bad social group, they can be seen as deviant, even if they are not a bad kid.

7

Social interactions with people who have mastered the Discourse.

You can learn and gain knowledge from these people.

I thought Gee says you cannot teach Discourse but he contradicts himself with this,

11,12

Where aspects of language and values you gain from secondary Discourses are filtered into primary Discourses.

It is important because they go hand in hand and can affect one another.

I do not have any.

9

Where one Discourse can be transferred to another.

There are many overlaps in life.

None.

13

Partial acquisition coupled with meta-knowledge and strategies to make do.

One can not be all the way in the Discourse and fake their way in.

I think if someone is doing a good job mush faking they should be considered to be in the Discourse

13

The ability to manipulate while growing and advancing.

Manipulation is important while advancing through life and from Discourse to Discourse.

I do not have any.

8,9

Discourse centered around money, prestige etc.

Money, prestige and status is valued in todays world.

Money is not everything, although many people think it is.

8,9

Discourses centered around social networks which don’t bring money, prestige, status etc.

It is important because not everything is related to money.

People only see money as ways to advance, but that  is not true.