Naming What We Know Section 2 Pt 1 (Dani):
● 2.0
○ Writing has fewer opportunities for social clues/setting the proper context than speech
■ “With writing, the need for understanding the rhetorical situation is even greater than in speaking because there are fewer material clues with which to locate ourselves spontaneously.”
○ Recognition of situation happens through genre
○ “People often take school-based assumptions with them long after they leave school, [...] and finding their main motives to be avoiding correction and getting a good grade.”
● 2.1
○ “...we think the world and the meaning of our ideas are more robust than the words we choose”
○ “...most of what we consider knowledge comes from the representation of the world and events in texts.”
● 2.2
○ Genres are enacted/a social action
○ “...genres are habitual responses to recurring socially bounded situations.”
○ “Genres are constructions of groups, over time, usually with the implicit or explicit sanction of organizational or institutional power.”
■ No single text is a genre
■ Genres are only relatively stable
2.3 Writing is a Way of Enacting Disciplinarity(Lerner)
>The relationship between disciplinary knowledge making and the ways writing and other communicative practices create and communicate that knowledge are at the heart of what defines particular disciplines.
>The way certain disciplines cite things show what they deem important( ex APA=requires date, so timeline is relevant), (ex2 MLA= just last name shows reference is timeless)
>They way certain fields write or have been formed to write their material is significant of what they value. You would never get a scientific report and a short story confused.
2.4 All Writing is Multimodal(Ball Charlton)
>The New London Group (NLG) outlines five modes through which meaning is made: linguistic, aural, visual, gestural, and spatial.
>a mode is not simply words, but also sound, texture, movement, and all other communicative acts that contribute to the making of meaning
>This understanding can be traced from classical rhetorical studies of effective speech design including body and hand gestures to current concerns with info-graphics and visual rhetorics.
>There is no such thing as monomodal, it is a dream word of the past
2.5 Writing is Performative (Lunsford)
>Writing is a performance.
>Words often cause action or do the act upon which they speak of("I now pronounce you husband and wife").
>Writing can make things happen
>Writing has the possibility to also be epistemic.
>Writing not only records, but it can also create
2.6 Texts get their Meaning from Other Texts (Roozen)
>Texts draw from many other texts. Almost like a network.
>terms for this network: "landscapes, sets, systems, ecologies, assemblages, repertoires, and intertexts"
>Text is never stand alone. Text refers to a multiple amount of things that go on day to day life.
>Winnie the Pooh might rely on the fact that the character is visually well known
>A grocery list is most likely based on the last list, as well as the visual of the coupons that one might have.