Lecture8:
--1-All of us master and control more than one social language.
--we switch among social languages we have according to the situation we are in.
--Big “C” Conversations: Conversation among Discourses.
--We tend to think of conversations as “just words.” But the sorts of conversations " Gee " is talking about involvea lot more than words; they involve, in fact, Discourses.
--It is better to call them “Conversations” with a “big C,” since they are better viewed as (historic) conversations between and among Discourses, not just among individual people.
--More than people, and more than language, are involved in Conversations.
--Conversation is involve at least the following three non-verbal things:
1. controversy:
that is, “sides” we can identify as constituting a debate (Billig 1987);
2. values and ways of thinking connected to the debate.
3. the “symbolic” value of objects and institutions:
that are what we might call non-verbal participants in the Conversation