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you know...
Dec. 7th, 2012 12:33 amWriting stuff like this is fun and all, but I really can't help thinking that I could write all this in half the length without any jargon from the readings and make it exponentially more understandable, to boot.
Like, srsly. Bakhtin's entire essay can basically be summed into: Everything anybody says has a context. Gee has a little more: You either pick things up unconsciously or learn them explicitly.
A context? You mean like who what when where why? Wow, we learned that in third grade!!
To put it in Educ140 terms:
There exists a discourse amongst those cultures which view literacy as a state of grace that, out of a desire to prevent the redistribution of cultural capital and maintain its raison d'etre, purposely engages in semantic heteroglossia under pretense of centrifugal, stratifying forces of utterance so that the reproduction of the architecture between classes and its subsequent hegemony is ensured.
Or, for those of us that speak English:
The smartest people want to keep their status of "smart" so they spent a lot of time inventing ambiguous flowery language to say their (simple) ideas in, so the rest of the world can stay confused.
/midnight fsm sarcasm
Like, srsly. Bakhtin's entire essay can basically be summed into: Everything anybody says has a context. Gee has a little more: You either pick things up unconsciously or learn them explicitly.
A context? You mean like who what when where why? Wow, we learned that in third grade!!
To put it in Educ140 terms:
There exists a discourse amongst those cultures which view literacy as a state of grace that, out of a desire to prevent the redistribution of cultural capital and maintain its raison d'etre, purposely engages in semantic heteroglossia under pretense of centrifugal, stratifying forces of utterance so that the reproduction of the architecture between classes and its subsequent hegemony is ensured.
Or, for those of us that speak English:
The smartest people want to keep their status of "smart" so they spent a lot of time inventing ambiguous flowery language to say their (simple) ideas in, so the rest of the world can stay confused.
/midnight fsm sarcasm
