In his article Gee uses keywords like literacy, linguistics,
and discourse as well as acquisition and learning. He focuses a lot on
discourse and how acquisition and learning play into it. How over time after we’ve
already been cultured we acquire and learn new things here and there. Some of
it consciously some of it unconsciously. The connections among them all is that
being a part of a discourse community teaches you new things consciously and
unconsciously. Over time you develop a language and it wasn’t really a
conscious thing you planned out it just happened. Even before you were a part
of a discourse community. In class we talked about knowledge and how it’s about
how we apply both our conscious and unconscious knowledge to a situation. We
apply our knowledge of audience to genre without know it we just look at a
situation and deduce what to do without having to actively learn a new way to
do something. We already have that experience. The discourse community that I’m
thinking about doing my project on is the community of sci-fi authors. As
sci-fi authors, we understand what exactly it is our genre entails and even if
we’ve never read each other’s stories we still know how to help each other out
just because we have that prior knowledge of this is how it’s formatted and
this is how we speak and our wording. This discourse community interests me
because I write mostly sci-fi things and I haven’t really gone in-depth with the
community and I’m looking forward to finding out more about the community and
if there’s anything new I can learn.
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