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Islands Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark Discourse Communities and Ecolinguistics   James Gee’s discussion of big “D” Discourses suggest that they are living and breathing entities. They are rule-bound (around issues of legitimacy and who can speak), yet changing and changeable. Gee frames discourses as socially and politically embedded within culture, and that “it is sometimes helpful to think about social and political issues as if it is not just us humans who are talking and in

Exploration of Subject Matter   My interest in genre within my work culture began with the Swalesian notions of the common ways, goals, and working methods of approved discoursal modes, particularly in regard to academic composition pedagogy and the awareness of genre within academic writing. We are mandated by institutional demands to teach x-number of genres in academic writing; compare and contrast, cause and effect, definition, evaluation, summary-response, persuasive arg

Ronald McDonald in Bangkok Globalized Experience As an American, I have been quite lucky to travel a fair amount, mostly in Latin America and Asia, and to live abroad in Asia for about 14 years of my life, and counting. Through this, I have gained a global, personalized, transcultural perspective on my own cultural identity. I often reflect that I never felt my own culture so deeply until it was thrown into relief, physically, by the shapes and sounds and aromas and flavors s

I suggest a radically open and inclusive intersectionality in approaching the conversation -