1. What is discourse?
- - Discourse to me is saying who you are, or what your career is. Discourse seems as if it is a way of life, it’s what you learned to be. Discourse is belonging to a socially accepted and meaningful group. When you are in a discourse, you talk, dress, and act a certain way that relates to the discourse.
2. What does it mean that discourses are ideological?
- - This means that when you are in a discourse; you believe everything about it. You have the same exact values and morals as every other person in the discourse. You even talk and dress the same. Every person in a discourse is taught to be the exact same.
3. What is the difference between acquisition and learning?
- - Acquisition is something you learn without realizing that you are learning it, it’s something that you just take in without actually hands on learning it. And learning is something that you would learn in a classroom, and you physically do work, and study and learn it.
4. What is the difference between a primary and a secondary
discourse?
- - In a primary discourse (family) you learn how to act in a certain group, and how to dress & talk. You also learn about the culture you have to live by and religion. In a secondary discourse (society), you do the same thing as a primary discourse but you go more in depth and learn more about the writing and the language of the discourse.
5. What’s the most confusing sentence in the essay? Please
rewrite it/copy and paste it below. What do you think it means?
- - To me the most confusing sentence was; “It can he noted however that sometimes people must fall back on their primary uses of language in inappropriate circumstances when they fail to control the requisite secondary use.”
- - I think this sentence means that people, who have learned something in a secondary discourse, can always go back to what they were or what they learned in the primary discourse. But only if it is the right or appropriate time to do so.
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