Alex Gilkerson
ENG 1510
10/29/12
Dialectal Journal for Swales and Gee
Gee Quotes
“Language is a misleading term, it too often suggests grammar.” This is completely true and I agree with it immensely. Language isn’t how we spell or write it’s about how we communicate and the different ways to communicate.
“A discourse is a sort of identity kit”. I feel my discourse would be sports. Like in Brandon’s case, he says he doesn’t know much about sports. Well I don’t know a lot about video games. I focus a lot on sports and know quite a lot about them.
“How does one acquire a discourse?” In my opinion, someone acquires a discourse by the way they are raised. If my parents didn’t like sports and put me in them, I wouldn’t have an interest in them.
“We can also make an important distinction between dominant discourse and non-dominant discourse.” This to me means that in dominant discourse would be something you were kind of born into and a non-dominant discourse is something you get into over time. Like joining a new church or being baptized.
“literacy must be couched in terms of the notion of discourse.” This means that how you learn and your learning styles will be altered by the way you are raised.
Swales Quotes
“creating a false impression that such communities are only to be associated with intellectual paradigms or scholarly cliques.”. This quote is basically saying that terms that discourse communities come up with are usually only known within their group.
“discourse communities have developed and continue to develop discourse expectations.” To be in a discourse community you have to live up to their expectations or else the way it works could change. Its okay for them to change but normally it should take a very long time because it could obtain large numbers of people.
“My own early attempts to be a full member of the community were not marked by success” To me this meant that he was not successful early on in his writings and that it took him years to accomplish.
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