The Meaning of Life and Social Discourses

Robert Lowell's confession poem "Life Research" (1962), memoir of Drusilla Modjeska "The Orchard" (1994), Arthur Bochner's personal story "Time Relationship Time" (1997) and Felicia Sullivan's retrospective The record "I can not see it here." (2008), truth and meaning Life is understood as a product of social discourse. This means that they are among language, complement of the represented life, and between the ghosts of the past, the present, and the future self. Therefore, "self" in expression of life can be found in the dialogue relationship with "others" expressed by life. Others, universal and linguistic customs, and ideology are supported.

In life, we developed two major discourse, primary and secondary. The main discourse is the word we develop in the main social realm of living like home. If we start socializing outside the house or outside the main space, we will develop a secondary discourse. Schools, churches, and sports are examples of people who can develop secondary discourse. By testing as a fluent user and passing in the locals of the discourse, Gee came up with the idea of ​​how to move from discourse to these areas from the second discourse to present it through him . Tests were conducted by discourse people trying to ascertain whether people wanting to participate in discourse understand their representatives or just want to join a group where they do not fit. With these tests, you can belong to the new property you lived while developing properties belonging to other discourse.

Everyone was born and raised according to the first socialization, which in turn gives discourse to everyone. Secondary discourse can not be achieved so easily in future life. James Paul Gee describes the best discourse in his journal "Literacy, Discourse and Linguistics: Introduction". It is almost impossible to enter into secondary discourse. It is not as simple as knowing some parts of discourse, but I think that "I am part of it" automatically. Gee is an expert on discourse, still an expert, and even if someone thinks they are inside, I know that it is not really the case. There is no "between you whether you are there or not" between words (Gee 9)