In this blog post I will be explaining the correlation between our discourse community values, the poem We Are Many by Pablo Neruda, and What is literacy? By James Paul Gee. The genre I chose for my interpretation is the traditional analysis essay where I will explain how I believe our discourse values tie in with the poem and article.
The foundation for the discourse community we share in our class is our discourse community values, which is on Professor Mangini’s website for all class members and website viewers to see. Everything we talk about in class is part of our discourse from learning to compose writing pieces in multiple genres to clarifying meaning for oneself. Without having set discourse values in our class our discourse would be completely different and possibly not as unique as it is now, it is because of these values our discourse has the identity it has. In We Are Many Pablo Neruda explains how a person takes part in an infinite amount of discourse communities. He talks about how he feels that he is a different person in every situation he is in because he uses different types of language in etiquette depending on what is going on around him. Each person in our class is part of other discourse communities other than the one we share every tuesday and thursday morning. Each person leaves class and goes to another class where they talk to different types of people and cover different subjects. As Pablo Neruda said “ When everything seems to be set to show me off as a man of intelligence, the fool I keep concealed on my person takes over my talk and occupies my mouth.” What he meant by this is in a certain situation he is another person, that other person is who he is in that specific discourse. This is exactly how everyone in our class is we all are someone in our class but someone else in our next. James Paul Gee gives an explanation to how literacy and discourse are extremely similar. They are similar in many ways because of the fact that there is an infinite number of discourses as well as types of literacy. Just like Pablo Neruda James Paul Gee gives a very in depth explanation of how we use discourse in ways we don’t even think of or that we are in so many different discourse communities we don’t even realize when we have switched discourses throughout our day. All three of these pieces identify with our discourse community because, one of of our main goals in the class is to be able to comprehend and understand the different discourse communities you are a part of. As well as being able to realize when you have joined a new community or changed to another whether it is in school, at work, or at home with family because all of those places are specific discourse communities themselves and have subdiscourses in them.
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Ashley
3/25/2019 02:50:24 pm
I like how you said the values form the identity for our discourse community. This helps the reader understand that every discourse community is different.
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Katey
3/25/2019 05:08:24 pm
I like how you brought all the readings together in the end.
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Kenya McDuffie
3/25/2019 08:18:58 pm
I appreciate how you dissected Pablo Neruda poem and brought together all the elements that describe discourse. Nice!
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alaina kimmel
3/27/2019 07:02:07 pm
I liked how you brought up that discourse communities also have many sub discourses.
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