In the article "Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics", James Paul Gee, Professor of Reading at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, discusses the importance of Discourses. He describes them as "ways of being in the world" or "saying (writing)-doing-being-valuing-believing combinations". We use Discourses in our everyday life as as way to communicate with others. There is more than one type of Discourse. Some of the different types are dominant, non dominant, primary, and secondary to name a few.
In the article Gee says that we are never "'purely' members of a single Discourse but, rather, that a given Discourse is influenced by other Discourses of which we're also members". What he is saying is that we may not ever be able to fully be a part of one single Discourse because it is effected by so many other Discourses.
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