Discourse

Discourse has many different views. As this is completely true with the articles written by Gee, Swales, and Mirabelli. They all have different insight and different ideas on the topic of what discourse is. Discourse, loosely is where you came from and what you learned on your own. To this I say is plain to see is correct, but the ideas that some of the men had, I believe are wrong.
Gee says you cannot become apart of a different discourse. This may be true with genetics and ethnicity, but i believe he is wrong in a few aspects. He says that no matter what no one can be taught to be a linguist... i believe that anyone can. For example, if a child grows up with an english father and a spanish mother, they will more than likely be bilingual naturally, just cause they grew up with it. But even as a young child, naturally we are trying to understand what is going on so we teach ourselves and learn from our parents words and sentence structure by just hearing it. If a person is not spanish but full english and they wish to learn spanish, they can take classes and buy tapes and eventually learn it. this would all be for self improvement. no one doesn't want to learn. thats part of being a human. so we must have the desire to learn these different discourses. What i believe could be taken from what Gee is saying (not that i agree) is that we are all of no discourse. To him, no one can become a mathemetition or an english person who speaks spanish, or a person who is a history major. we have to have the desire to learn the different discourses before we can say we know different things.
now with john swales, i kind of agree with what he says about the speech and discourse communities. we are just surrounded by all of the kinds of people we want to be surrounded by. in my case, english speaking, athletes, and people with a good sense of humor and know how to have a good time.
in short i think we make our own discourses as life goes on. we chose to learn what we desire to become better at. it is this desire to learn that makes apart of every discourse that we want to be.

(I want to apologize for the uncapitalized and misspelled words. My laptop broke, and the computer in the lab has a difficult shift key, i hope you don't get too upset over this)