Pre-Reading
Its a bit hard to think about the activities that I take part in here at college and how they relate to this, but when I think back to high school, I was involved in band and the drama club. In these activities, we had our different terms and things that we used in each. However, they did influence each other a lot probably because many people that were in band were in drama as well, and vice versa, so there was some bleed over in the language spoken in both activities.
Summary
In his article, "Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics", James Paul Gee attempts to tell the reader about his thoughts on what discourse communities are about. He argues that you can't fake being in a discourse because they will not accept you into that community if you do.
Synthesis
This article is similar to the Swales article because they are both talking about the same subject of discourse community. In the Swales article, he talks more about the differences between discourse communities, while in this article Gee talks more about the particulars that a discourse entails.
QD#1
Gee means that your grammar can be perfect, but depending on the setting and who you are talking to can make what you are saying seem completely wrong. Yes this does conflict with what I have been taught in school because they tell you to use proper grammar all of the time, regardless of the community that you are speaking to.
My thoughts
I thought this would have been a pretty informative article, but I'm still not sure that I completely understand what he is trying to say. It seems like he is doing nothing but blathering on about random stuff and I don't know, but it just doesn't make much sense.
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