Re: Linking individ. & community

lenora.c.de.la.luna.1 (lenora who-is-at purdue.edu)
Tue, 11 Nov 1997 18:00:49 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Francoise Herrmann wrote:

> Hi Mike, Hi all, Thinking about linking the individual to the community
> and with the onion looking diagrams of CP (Cultural Psychology) in mind,
> I would look at language use. Language use of the individual as an
> avenue to the outer constituting layers and language use of the community
> (in all of its forms) as an avenue back to the individual. Unpacking levels,
> style, form, content and any other aspect of interest I think both
> yields constituting culture and walks one back to a better understanding
> of the phenomena in question (whatever it is.) and its alignments and
> deviations from constituting community.
>
I strongly agree with you. This makes me think of Gee's distinction
between discourse and Discourse.