Lecture 10 :
--Reflexivity : is how meaning is situated in actual contexts of use .
--Reflexivity : is the “magical” property of language.
--While “reciprocity” would be a good term for this property of language, the more commonly used term is “reflexivity”.
-- Reflexivity : is the sense of language and context being like two mirrors facing each other and constantly and endlessly reflecting their own images back and forth
between each other.
--Language then always simultaneously reflects and constructs the situation or
context in which it is used.
--Gee will use the term “situation,” rather than “context,” because he wants to define it in a particular way .
--A semiotic aspect is the “sign systems,” such as language, gestures,
images, or other symbolic systems (Kress and van Leeuwen 1996), and the forms of knowledge, that are operative and important here and now.
--7-An activity aspect, that is, the specific social activity or activities in which the participants are engaging; activities are, in turn, made up of a sequence of actions.
--A material aspect, that is, the place, time, bodies and objects present during
Interaction.
--8-A political aspect, that is, the distribution of “social goods” in the interaction, such as, power, status, and anything else deemed a “social good” by the participants in terms of their cultural models and Discourses.
--9-A sociocultural aspect, that is, the personal, social, and cultural knowledge,
feelings, values, identities, and relationships relevant in the interaction,
including, of course, sociocultural knowledge about sign systems, activities,
the material world, and politics.
--10-All these aspects together constitute a system (an interrelated network) within which each of the components or aspects simultaneously gives meaning to all the others and gets meaning from them.
--11-Situations are never completely novel
Rather, they are repeated, with more or less variation, over time.