Compare and contrast

Swales and Gee Compare and Contrast 

 

Compare

Swales and Gee are similar in many ways.  To make a discourse, they both have tension and acceptance.  They both talk about what a discourse is and how there are many different discourses.  They explain what kinds of characteristics a discourse has.  Both know that one needs to have discourse literacy to be apart of one. They both talk about sponsorship and apprenticeship.  Each talk about the certain communications to be apart of a discourse community.

Contrast

Swales and Gee are also very different from each other.  Swales talks more about the discourse community where Gee talks about Discourse with a capital "D".  In Gee's article he talks about primary and secondary discourses, but in Swales he only really mentions primary discourses.  Swales in more about Intertextuality and conceptualization where Gee is about learning from someone already in the discourse and learning from the community.