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I chose this annotation because it points out the main message in what James Gee is stating about the importance of discourse.
I chose this annotation because Gee talks about how are level of discourse grows and changes over time and as we become more educated. As well as it makes you think about how your own discourse has grown and changed over time.
I chose this page of annotations because it addresses, how important the human body language is. It is a key factor in how we view people, get jobs, make friends and chose world leaders.
I chose this annotation because, I talk about how she explains that body language is almost another language in its own, and that most of ours thoughts about people come from their body language.
- Gee, writes about how linguistics is not something that can be taught, “While you can teach someone linguistics, a body of knowledge, you can’t teach them to be a linguist.” (7) He is saying that you can have the facts and the rules but no one can teach how to be a linguist because it is up to you to become one. People become a linguist, biologist and historian by gaining the proper knowledge of their profession but they must apply their knowledge to their art and job to be able to become a linguist or historian and a biologist. This is like a Theory in science, before it was just a testing hypothesis and it becomes a theory when it has a committee of people who all believe it is true and is based on facts, people become linguist when they have almost become a expert in their craft is what Gee is trying to say in this paper.
- Three signs of Cuddys secondary discourse is when she first talks about how others body language is used to decide what kind person they are and how well the do things. “hows that when people watch 30-second soundless clips of real physician-patient interactions, their judgments of the physician’s niceness predict whether or not that physician will be sued. So it doesn’t have to do so much with whether or not that physician was incompetent,but do we like that person and how they interacted?” (5:20) Gee mentioned something along the lines of this in how we present our self affects the message we are trying to send to others. Another secondary discourse she uses is her example in what people look for in a leader. “You want the person who’s powerful and assertive and dominant, but not very stress reactive, the person who’s laid back.”(9:30) We get this information by how people react to stress as well as how they carry themselves. A third example is how she discusses people practicing power poses to increase there levels of testosterone, “two minutes they do this. We then ask them, “How powerful do you feel?” on a series of items, and then we give them an opportunity to gamble, and then we take another saliva sample.That’s it. That’s the whole experiment.” (10:8) Gee connects to this in his paper by talking how we must practice this type of body language to become better at it.
- The importance of nonverbal communication is crucial to everybody because it is a major way people communicate from the elementary school to working at a job. This is also important if you are applying for a job in her discussion she talks about how people who are more open and outgoing and confident tend to be more successful in job interviews. Furthermore having a powerful body language can help in making deals in bunessis if you are more outgoing than the deal will most likely go your than if you made yourself small. “So I want you to pay attention to what you’re doing right now.We’re going to come back to that in a few minutes, and I’m hoping that if you learn to tweak this a little bit, it could significantly change the way your life unfolds.” (1:20) Here is says the way you hold yourself will affect everything you do. This has a large impact in the business and science world because you are interacting with others at all time, meaning you must be confident in your work and feel powerful to be able to be respected more in the job and to be able to advance to the higher ranking job.
