Week Five Blog Post

In Gee’s “Literary, Discourse, and Linguistics,” she explains how you can speak with perfect grammar, but at the same time, be wrong. She explains how language isn’t really language until you use it correctly. Think this is true because some people use “big words” and “perfect grammar” to make it seem like they know what they are talking about. If you dissect what the author is really saying, it could potentially be false or misleading. I think by using a rhetorical analysis in order to dissect a reading, it can change the readers whole perspective on the author. If the genre of the reading is inconsistent, it can often be misleading, meaning that an author has to keep a consistent tone within the whole piece to really persuade someone into what they’re thinking. I am often convinced by someone argument if they speak with passion and they are using correct and consistent terminology. Sometimes you have to dive deeper to know what someone is really saying to you before being convinced by a slight explanation. In school, I will hear teachers or professors speak with vast grammar and length, but i won’t really understand what they mean because of the word choice they use. After some more explanation, most of the time, I start to understand the pint they are trying to reach. This is kind of what Gee is saying. If you don’t understand, dive deeper, pick apart things you didn’t know you had to pick a part, and find a different, more understanding meaning in everything you read.