The Organization of Speech Activity
January 26, 2007 |
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The question of how verbal practice
constructs gender encompasses both how what is said or written
produces and reproduces gender discourses, and how gender
affects peoples' ability to get their words, their ideas, into the
discourse - both the small discourse of their immediate groups, and
the wider discourse of the community, the nation, and even the
world. The power to make meaning in the world depends on the
situations in which one's words are heard and taken up. Today's class
will examine the organization of speech activity in such constructs as
speech situations, speech events, and genres.
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