Discourse Community Overview
What is Literacy? (James Paul Gee) A Discourse Community is "a group of people who are trying to achieve specific common goals." There are multiple ways to express a discourse community. One example is Religion. There are many different ways you can look at Religion, but overall there are groups of people who share the same or at least similar beliefs and goals. Another way to look at discourse communities is a sports team. The team initially has the same goal- to win- but individually they may have their own separate parts to play and goals to reach in that game. What is Literacy? "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 of "social network." In college for example, you are expected to write and read at a certain level. In an interview, you are expected to act, dress, and talk a certain way. When you are born, you are all born into a primary discourse. It's your families discourse, which is more than language. It is identity. We acquire our primary discourse. It is speaking more than words. Then, you have secondary discourses. You are around a certain behavior and you pick up that behavior through men-cognitive teaching. If you're a primary discourse, that you were born into, is close to your secondary discourse, it is easier for you to adapt to this. If your secondary is far away from your primary, you have to make changes to get there. If you were born into an immigrant home, where your main language isn't English, going to college in America will be much more difficult to do than someone who was born and brought up into English.
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Sabatino
2/10/2020 07:58:41 am
I am happy to see how his optional blog post explores our classroom conversations, discourse communities, and Gee's What is Literacy? This type of non-required blogging (writing because you want to...because you see the value of using writing to make meaning for yourself) can be transformative.
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