Part 2

1.Gee is proposing that this “combination” is one of the keys fundamentals to language. For me an example I can think of is being an athlete. Athletes see things different especially in regards to competition, sportsmanship, and strategy

3.According to Gee a Primary discourse is one’s home. A Primary discourse is how one was brought up in one’s environment and how we originally see the world without “outside” influence. Secondary discourse is a discourse that comes in the result of interaction in the world that being with other people or travel. The mix of culture and ideas makes new discourses, secondary discourses.

5.Body language is very important in business. If you are in the business field, you would want to appear confident and powerful to others to get what you want. If one appears small and weak, they are less likely to get what they want.

 

Part 3
Above is on page 6 of Gee’s article and I have annotated Gee defining Discourse not as language or grammar but as what on is saying-doing-being-valuing-believing combinations. I saw this worth an annotation because this helps the reader understand what a discourse is according to the author.

Above is on page 7 of Gee’s article and I have annotated the point that Gee writes, “The various Discourses which constitute each of us as persons are changing and often are not fully consistent with each other.” This is the author building on his claims and extending his point that Discourses define us. After the author has explained how discourse defines us, he says how each of our personal discourse combinations truly make us different.

 

Above is an excerpt from the Ted Talk by Amy Cuddy early on when she discusses body language. The quote at 1:53 is about a study done by Nalini Ambady where she would show people silent 30 second clips where physicians would consult with patients. Based off body language, strong or poor, people could determine what physicians would be sued. I thought this to be troubling. Is she concluding all physicians are incompetent and should be sued but if your nice and appear competent you won’t get sued. I could see her point it just seemed weird and out of place for me.

 

Above is an excerpt from the Ted Talk by Amy Cuddy when discussing how our body language is deceived. The quote from 3:08 in the speech reads, “So when we think of non verbal’s, we think of how we judge others, how they judge us and what the outcomes are. We tend to forget, though, the other audience that’s influenced by our nonverbals, and that’s ourselves. We are also influenced by our nonverbals, our thoughts and our feelings and our physiology.” This paragraph seems directly from Gee’s article. How we act and how we interact with others determines how we are perceived. Whether that’s how we speak or how we appear. This was a bridge between both pieces of work.

 

(I’m not sure why the photo quality is bad the one excerpt is a screenshot from my laptop and it still didn’t look good so I apologize)