Time Log:
Saturday:
11 am. – Woke up and met up with my friend James to sell my car, drove to Eastern Long Island
1 pm.- Arrived in Eastern Long Island and sold my car, met with car salesman which caused a change in my speech
3 pm.- Came back to Great Neck, and hung out at a park since it was hot out.
5 pm- Went for dinner with my Mom and my sister
7 pm.- Went back home to change before going out.
10 pm- Met friends at the train station
11 pm- Arrived at the club we wanted to go to.
2 am- Left the club where we were.
3 am- took the train which was packed back to Long Island
Sunday:
12 pm- woke up
12:30 pm- drove to Jack Dempsey’s bar in Bayside, Queens to watch the Dolphins game
1 pm- Arrived at Jack Dempsey’s, enjoyed game with my dad
6 pm- Left Dempsey’s, went home and did school work at the library with my friend
8 pm- Arrived at home and ate dinner with my mom, she made meatloaf
10 pm- Watched Curb Your Enthusiasm
11:30 pm- Watched Rick & Morty
12 am- Sleeping
I think that throughout my weekend I encountered a wide range of situations that struck a few things to me. Firstly, it showed me how different I talk around my parents and sister than when I am around my friends. The first thing I notice is that I do not curse nearly as much as when I do when watching a sports game with friends or even just having a conversation. I do not know what it is, perhaps when we are talking to our friends there is more of a drive to challenge each others egos. The next thing I noticed is that the way I talk around my parents is not how I talk around all adults, the guy who bought my car was trying to haggle me to a lower cost but I did not budge, he thought he could roll me because I am younger and I knew that. I think also the fact that we did this log recording on a weekend shows how the results vary to a week day as there is no commute on these days, and there is no school. Not only is my conversation in a different place, but mentally I am in a totally different place when I do not have the obligations of school in a day. It is not to say that I do not like school, I love to learn, however the things a school day entails such as a commute really make the whole day feel like a chore.
Annotated Bibliography:
Gee, James P. “Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction. “Journal of Education” 171.1 (1989): 5-17. Print.
Evaluation: This article was really engaging in my perspective. I did not know about the many “intricacies” go into language and how humans go back and forward between language types without even realizing. I feel like this article is useful to my project because I will use the examples he shows in explaining primary and secondary discourses as primary tools for language. The examples will further show how language is more of an expression of belief or passion than anything else, which is my goal. Even though it may seem like humans communicate almost systematically these days, I think that our overall language is shaped by those who surround us.
Summary: Gee points out that language is much more than the common label of “grammar”, after reading this it seems as if his definition is passion-related. Further he has great concern with how people perceive the “discourses” around language, he says that discourse are the variables that go into shaping our rhetoric. The choices we use with words, that can also be dependent on the people we are surrounded by at that moment. I think it is true that our discourses are associated with our identity as they are the variables that represent the choices we make in speech. In short, I think he means to show that language is more of an “art than a science” meaning there is no specific methodology to it, its more of a representation of feeling. He also shapes discourses as situations; when he says that language does not have to be fluent between two people for them to talk, just the discourse is fluent between them. This means both people may not know what each is saying exactly, but they could have an idea through variables such as emotion or body language.