Whenever we speak or write, we always and simultaneously construct or build six things or six areas of “reality:”
1.The meaning and value of aspects of the material world: I enter a plain، square room, and speak and act in a certain way (e. g .like someone about to run a meeting), and, low and behold, where I sit becomes the “front” of the room .
2- Activities :We talk and act in one way and we are engaged in formally opening a committee meeting; we talk and act in another way and we are engaged in
“chit-chat ”before the official start of the meeting.
3-Identities and relationships : I talk and act in one way one moment and I am speaking and acting as “chair” of the committee; the next moment I speak and talk in a different way and I am speaking and acting as one peer/colleague speaking to another .
4. Politics (the distribution of social goods : ( I talk and act in such a way that a visibly angry male in a committee meeting (perhaps it’s me!) is “standing his ground on principle,” but a visibly angry female is “hysterical ”.
5.Connections : I talk and act so as to make what I am saying here and now in this committee meeting about whether we should admit more minority students connected to or relevant to (or, on the other hand, not connected to or relevant to) what I said last week about my fears of losing my job given the new government’s turn to the right .