Gee Dialectical Journal

Gee

Discourse (capital D) and “identity kit” (484)

“Discourses are not mastered by overt instruction, but by enculturation into social practices through scaffolded and supported interaction with people who have already mastered the Discourse.” (484)

“primary Discourse, is the one we first use to make sense of the world and interact with others” (485)

Gee’s definition of “literacy”: “the mastery of or fluent control over a secondary Discourse” (486)

“Someone cannot engage in a Discourse in a less than fully fluent manner. You are either in it or you’re not.” (487)

“Discourse always involves more than writing and reading” (488)

“Mushfake Discourse” “do with something less when the real thing is not available” (490)