Terms From the Textbook: I'm not having difficulty with any of the terms. I was able to look up more information about the terms that were not clear to me.
Building Tasks: Gee stated in chapter two of his book that a discourse analyses asks questions about any language based on these building tasks: significance, practices, identities, relationships, politics, connections, and sign systems and knowledge.
Significance asks "How is this piece of language being used to make certain things significant or not and in what ways?".
Practices asks "What practice is this piece of language being used to enact?".
Identities asks "What identity is this piece of language being used to enact?".
Relationships asks "What sort of relationship is this piece of language seeking to enact with others?".
Connections asks "How does this piece of language connect or disconnect things?".
Politics asks "What perspective on social goods is this piece of langauge communicating?".
Sign systems and knowledge asks "How does this piece of language privilege or disprivilege specific sign systems?".
My project is about children being affected by coming from nonstandard English speaking homes into standard English speaking classrooms.
The building tasks that mostly relate to my research are significance, identities, relationships and connection.
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