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Literacy, Discourse And Linguistics

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Separated into the categories primary, secondary dominant, and secondary non-dominant, discourses pertain to a person’s social identity, values, beliefs, acts, words, and attitudes according to the author, James Paul Gee, in the article, “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction”. An individual who observes my life can effortlessly identify that my primary discourse is family. The way I act at every situation results from me observing my household members perform various activities. For instance, being in a family that relies particularly on the English language to succeed, I have easily become fluent in the linguistic. This knowledge grants me a sense of identity as the way I perceive concepts originates from my family. However,
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