Reading Journal (Gee)

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page

Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words

In the article by Gee he talks about how discourse is an “identity course” to act as a way on how to act and talk. Furthermore, it discusses how being trained as a linguist means that you learn to speak, act, and think as one and not only that, but recognize when others do the same. It categorizes the concrete institutions of things like being a linguist, American, or even a Russian. There are things within a group that separates them from others and create a new norm of the way you speak as well as act. Another idea that is brought up in the text is that it is believed to be helpful to think that individuals don’t speak and act, but that historically and socially defined discourses speak to each others through individuals which is a major point within the text.

Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.

During the reading I stumbled to apart of the text where it says, much of what we come by in life, after our initial enculturation, involves a mixture of acquisition and learning” (Gee 20). From context clues you can tell that enculturation means the gathering and combination of cultures or group by a person. I can tell because it says mature of acquisition and learning.

How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

This connects because in religion class we are talking how religions talk and interact with others. It talks about their norms towards women and things such as that which I believe connects to the discourse we experience today and how we can spot differences in culture if that makes sense.

Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.

How do you talk different and act different then others because of your family culture?