Patty's revisiting her earlier claims about the need for teaching academic discourse, as she and her colleagues were inattentive to, if not unaware of, the "conflicts such teaching might generate for students coming from home discourse communities at great remove from the academic" (8).
-Joseph Harris won an award in '89 for exposing the infair pressures that notion of community (academic discourse community) "places on students and the ways it disguises internal disagreements" (8).
While there is still a traditional academic discourse, in many fields today it must "share the field with new forms of discourse that are clearly doing serious intellectual work and are received and evaluated as such, even as they violate many of the conventions of tradtitional academic discourse" (8).
These are hybrid academic discourses.
But we still need to know how to evaluate them and help their users improve them.
Traditional Academic Discourse:
There are certain rules and standards of a discourse community... "the way one employs these language-using conventions (with familiarity, with grace, or tentative bravado, for example) establishes one's place within the community: people of higher status use language (within the shared conventions) differently than do people of lower status" (9).
The community uses and shares this language for common projects and goals. The disourse and its standards and how a person fits in there has a profound impact on the individuals who use it. It's wisespread over land, class, culture, and even time.
But: "Actual humans are usually acquainted with more than one discourse, without being essentially defined by any--which helps give rise to hybrid discursive forms in which the language-using practices of more than one disoourse are blended, sometimes not smoothly" (10).
"Grapholect" is a form of language too complex to be spoken, the most "formal and ultra-correct" form of a language.
ADC’s enforce “a typical worldview, such that the persona speaking” projects objectivity, skepticism, and argumentativeness (10-11). Hence, also male.
Hybrid Academic Discourse:
Growing due to the more recent and growing diversification of academia.
“After all, in how many communities is it considered appropriate to critically question everything one’s interlocutor says, picking apart the other person’s statements and even her or his grammar and word choice, while keeping one’s own emotions and investments in the topic carefully hidden?” (11).
These hybrid languages open up the field for new possibilities. They’re “openly subjective, incorporating an author’s emotions and prejudices, forms that seek to find common ground among opposing positions rather than setting them against one another head to head, forms that deviate from the traditional grapholect by using language that is more informal, that includes words from other languages, that employs cultural references from the wide variety of world cultures rather than only the canonical Western tradition, and so on. These hybrid discourses enable scholarship to take account of new variables, to explore new methods, and to communicate findings in new venues, including broader reading publics than the academic” (12).
Victor’s discourse is “a hybrid form that borrows from both [newyorican speak and TAD] and is greater than the sum of its parts, accomplishing intellectual work that could not be done in either of its parent discourses alone” (13).
-Joseph Harris won an award in '89 for exposing the infair pressures that notion of community (academic discourse community) "places on students and the ways it disguises internal disagreements" (8).
While there is still a traditional academic discourse, in many fields today it must "share the field with new forms of discourse that are clearly doing serious intellectual work and are received and evaluated as such, even as they violate many of the conventions of tradtitional academic discourse" (8).
These are hybrid academic discourses.
But we still need to know how to evaluate them and help their users improve them.
Traditional Academic Discourse:
There are certain rules and standards of a discourse community... "the way one employs these language-using conventions (with familiarity, with grace, or tentative bravado, for example) establishes one's place within the community: people of higher status use language (within the shared conventions) differently than do people of lower status" (9).
The community uses and shares this language for common projects and goals. The disourse and its standards and how a person fits in there has a profound impact on the individuals who use it. It's wisespread over land, class, culture, and even time.
But: "Actual humans are usually acquainted with more than one discourse, without being essentially defined by any--which helps give rise to hybrid discursive forms in which the language-using practices of more than one disoourse are blended, sometimes not smoothly" (10).
"Grapholect" is a form of language too complex to be spoken, the most "formal and ultra-correct" form of a language.
ADC’s enforce “a typical worldview, such that the persona speaking” projects objectivity, skepticism, and argumentativeness (10-11). Hence, also male.
Hybrid Academic Discourse:
Growing due to the more recent and growing diversification of academia.
“After all, in how many communities is it considered appropriate to critically question everything one’s interlocutor says, picking apart the other person’s statements and even her or his grammar and word choice, while keeping one’s own emotions and investments in the topic carefully hidden?” (11).
These hybrid languages open up the field for new possibilities. They’re “openly subjective, incorporating an author’s emotions and prejudices, forms that seek to find common ground among opposing positions rather than setting them against one another head to head, forms that deviate from the traditional grapholect by using language that is more informal, that includes words from other languages, that employs cultural references from the wide variety of world cultures rather than only the canonical Western tradition, and so on. These hybrid discourses enable scholarship to take account of new variables, to explore new methods, and to communicate findings in new venues, including broader reading publics than the academic” (12).
Victor’s discourse is “a hybrid form that borrows from both [newyorican speak and TAD] and is greater than the sum of its parts, accomplishing intellectual work that could not be done in either of its parent discourses alone” (13).
