"Discourses are ways of being in the world; they are forms of life which integrate words, acts, values, beliefs, attitudes, and social identities as well as gestures, glances, body positions and clothes."p.526,Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction, James Paul Gee. I found great value in this definition for the word "discourse". In other words, we are constantly making a way of speaking or discourse decision and is everything we do a form of discourse? In this statement I believe this is what is being said. When we make gestures a silent form of discourse? One that is still very visible. The way that we dress is the beginning of the language that we speak. Here again religion our belief system has a special discourse that we express at church and in our daily lives the choices we make.
To learn a new discourse will mean making changes in your life, so that when you learn new words you are learning a different or new discourse. How exciting!! I am no longer afraid of learning to discourse in a new language.
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