James Paul Gee’s introduction to Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics and his article‚ What is Literacy?‚ approach literacy studies from psychological and sociological viewpoints. He states that the focus of literacy is social practices (“it’s not just how you say it‚ but what you are and do when you say it). Early in the writing‚ Gee defines Discourse as a combination of acts: saying‚ writing‚ doing‚ being‚ valuing‚ etc. He views Discourse as a social construct not dissimilar from Culture. In fact
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summary of the essay. In this report James Paul Gee (1996) from his book Social Linguistics And Literacy has given the idea that literacy is not just the ability to read and write but it is mush more than that. It is the knowledge of different "discourses" which are part of our personalities and the knowledge of the beliefs and values connected to these discourses. He also gives the idea of a liberating literacy which "can be used as a meta-language or a meta- discourse ( a set of meta-words‚ meta-values
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“What is Literacy” were a boat‚ we’d all be bailing water. In recent weeks all of us have been introduced to the essay “What is Literacy” written by Linguist James Paul Gee in 1987. Within this document Gee employs his learned skills to provide a “useful” definition for the word literacy. Prior to providing us this insight however‚ Gee must provide definitions for various other words and ideas as well as numerous theories in an effort to support his final supposition. Words such as discourse and sub-discourse
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Chun Kit Dixon Wong U0907754 Writing 1010 – 006 10 February 2015 In “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics: introduction” James P Gee presents his analysis of discourse. Gee discussed Discourse and discourse. With the capital “D which included saying‚ writing‚ doing‚ being‚ valuing‚ believing and so forth. The other discourse with the little “d”‚ it only means connected stretches of language that make sense (Gee‚ 1989:Page 5) Using the right grammar to talk to people it doesn’t workout every single
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Reading Response “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics” by James Paul Gee Summary: In “Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics‚” James Paul Gee attempts to explain “a way of talking about literacy” and “literacy studies.” He describes how a Discourse is not the same as discourse‚ details the different types of Discourses‚ and introduces several new terms to strengthen his argument. Gee’s overall claims‚ in his own words‚ is “the focus of literacy studies or applied linguistics should not be language
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James Gee (19--) challenged the reading profession to think more broadly about reading instruction when he wrote‚ “’Literacy’ is the mastery or fluent control over a secondary Discourse” (p. 9). As social beings‚ people belong to a variety of Discourse groups‚ groups that have very specific identities and “ways of being in the world” (Gee‚ 19--‚ p. 6). Our primary Discourse group is that of our home. As our world expands‚ so do our Discourse groups. According to Gee‚ these secondary Discourse
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According to an author‚ James Paul Gee‚ “Situated Meaning and Learning”‚ he explains about the difference between understanding a main topic of books with situated meaning and comprehending a main idea of booklets without embodied experience. Games usually come with a complete walkthrough that tells players all about the games’ instructions as well as hints. For example‚ a game‚ American McGee’s Alice‚ is about Alice has gone insane and returned to a nightmarish Wonderland‚ comes with a booklet called
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forms depends heavily on how they developed their literacy which is unique per person. The article Literacy‚ Discourse‚ and Linguistics by James Paul Gee goes through different theories he has on the correct and incorrect ways that language is used when communicating during different scenarios and why. The main cause of unique levels regarding literacy are the different Discourses a person may have. First and foremost are the primary Discourses which are basically what an individual is born into;
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What is meant by the field of linguistics? This introductory chapter concerns some dimensions of linguistics‚ which give us a general idea of what linguistics is‚ including the history of linguistic‚ grammar‚ and other disciplines of linguistics study. What does grammar consist of and what are the relationship between one and another? How many languages do human beings have the capacity to acquire? What other studies are made in recent centuries? Each of these aspects are clearly described‚ and other
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question doesn’t want to wipe out the student’s home language or make the student resent the teacher for attempting to wipe out their home language. As Gee said‚ our language or discourse is a part of our identity kit; it is thread in the fabric that composes us as individuals. What Baker referred to as ‘home language’ is the same as our primary discourse – the language we learn through acquisition that is a direct result of who we are and shapes who we become. Needless to say‚ I agree with Baker in
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