Lecture6;
--1-The key to Discourses is “recognition.”
--.” If you put language, action, interaction, values, beliefs, symbols, objects, tools, and places together in such a way that others recognize you as a particular type of who (identity) engaged in a particular type of what (activity) here and now, then you have pulled off a Discourse.
--The Discourses we enact existed before each of us came on the scene and most of them will exist long after we have left the scene.
--Discourses, through our words and deeds, carry on conversations with each other through history, and, in doing so, form human history.
--“recognition work.” Is when People engage in such work when they try to make visible to others (and to themselves, as well) who they are and what they are doing
--the term “social language” (Gee 1996: ch. 4; Bakhtin 1986) is useful in place of the cumbersome phrase “whodoing- what,” at least as far as the language aspects of “who-doing-whats” are concerned (remembering that language is caught up with “other stuff” in Discourses).
--Social languages are what we learn and what we speak.