In this blog I will be quoting from these three texts:Our Discourse Community Values, What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee), We Are Many (Pablo Neruda).
My focus of this blog is to point out informative information that helped me get a better understanding of Literacy and the characteristics of a Discourse Community. All the books I read lionize dazzling hero figures, brimming with self-assurance. I die with envy of them; and, in films where bullets fly on the wind, I am left in envy of the cowboys, left admiring even the horses. But when I call upon my DASHING BEING, out comes the same OLD LAZY SELF, and so I never know just WHO I AM, nor how many I am, nor WHO WE WILL BE BEING. I would like to be able to touch a bell and call up my real self, the truly me, because if I really need my proper self, I must not allow myself to disappear. - “Pablo Neruda” 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.” .- “James Paul Gee” Think of a discourse as an “identity kit” which comes complete with the appropriate costume and instructions on how to act and talk so as to take on a particular role that others will recognize. Some other examples of discourse: being an American or a Russian, being man or a woman, being a member of a certain socio-economic class, being a factory worker or a boardroom executive, being a doctor or a hospital patient, being a teacher, an administrator, or a student, being member of a sewing circle, a club, a street gang, a lunchtime social gathering, or a regular at a local watering hole.- “James Paul Gee” Or a group of people who are trying to achieve specific common goals. Accomplishing these goals through the use of intercommunication among members of the community. Communicate through a number of different ways and develop some specific words and sayings (jargon) unique to that group.- “John Swales”. Discourses are inherently “ideological”, they crucially involve a set of values and viewpoints. They are resistant to internal criticism and self-scrutiny, defines positions from which to speak and behave are not, however, just defined internal to a discourse, but also as standpoints taken up by the discourse in its relation to others, ultimately opposing, discourse. As well as concern itself with certain objects and puts forward certain concepts, viewpoints, and values at the expense of others. Discourse are intimately related to the distribution of social power and hierarchical structure in society. Control over certain discourses can lead to acquisition of social goods (money, power, status) in a society.- “James Paul Gee” Rhetorical is defined as relating to, or concerned with the art of speaking or writing formally and effectively as a way to persuade or influence people. The three elements of a rhetorical situation are audience, exigence and constraints. Audience: who you are writing to. Exigence: the problem you are writing to solve. Constraints: limitations you have to factor into your writing. In relations to discourse community: The members of the discourse community constitute the audience of the rhetorical situation. The exigence of the writing works towards the common goals of the discourse community you are writing for. Constraints include using the genre,lexis and methods of the community.
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Katey
3/25/2019 05:05:47 pm
I like how you like emphasized certain words when you quoted.
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Daniel Weaver-Cooke
3/25/2019 07:48:35 pm
I like how you broke down distinct types of discourse in different types of people in the world.
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alaina kimmel
3/27/2019 06:57:10 pm
I liked how in depth you went when describing a discourse community.
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