Gee
What is Gee's full name?
James Paul Gee
What does social language relate to?
How people identify themselves and their actions
What is a discourse community?
A discourse community consists of people who use a particular language for the same goals and purposes
What is the social language present?
medical terms
What is the social language present?
Dance terms
What is the name of Gee's article?
Reading As A Situated Language: A Sociocognitive Perspective
What do you have to do to know a particular social language?
Either to be able to ‘do’ a particular identity, using that social language, or to be able to recognize such an identity, when we do not want to or cannot actively participate
What is the language used in a discourse community called?
A social language
Who is in the discourse community?
The doctors and nurses
Who is in the discourse community present?
The dancers, dance teachers, and dance moms
According to Gee, what is one role of language?
To scaffold the performance of action in the world, including social activities and interactions
What do people do regarding social language?
People shift their language depending on what group of people they are addressing or with and take on different identities when doing such
Can someone outside of a discourse community recognize it?
Yes, but they cannot actively participate in the conversation occurring
Who is not a part of the discourse community?
The patients
Who is not a part of this community?
People that don't dance nor have any dance experience.
What is language tied to?
People's experiences of situated action in the material and social world
What does there need to be in order for there to be a social language?
A group of people that all relate to one another and identify themselves the same way
Why do people mold their language?
To suit the portrayal of themselves when they are around a certain person or group of people or when they wish to identify as a specific version of themselves
What makes the community evident?
Most scenes take place in a hospital, during surgery and examining patients, so they are always using medical terms
What makes the community evident?
The scenes are either at the dance studio or at a dance competition.
What is language?
The tool that people use to situate action by giving context-specific meanings to actions and to the objects involved in those actions
Where are social languages embedded?
Within discourses and only have relevance and meaning within them
What makes every discourse community unique?
Their social language and beliefs
In the clip, what did the patient ask the doctor?
To simplify what they are saying
In the clip, what do they say that identifies the social language.
They count 5,6,7,8 and teach using dance terms