This article by Lisa Delpit dives into the concept of belonging to several discourses at once.

Contrary to Gee, Delpit describes the relationship between two discourses to be more secular rather than a hindrance on each other. In other words, they can coexist at one time, the opposite of what Gee attempts to push across.

People do indeed have a primary discourse according to Delpit, but these are not the only things we are bonded to and restrained against. We can simply live among more than one discourse, as most of us do in our lives to begin with.

An example and connection I can infer, is I’m quite sure that many people certainly behave at least a minuscule amount different with their friends than that which they do at home with parents or grandparents.

The topic that we’ve been on for discourses has been the concept of “proper” English and “Black” English, and the different people who live within these discourses. I inferred that Delpit argues that the discourse of somebody shouldn’t be used as a metaphorical restraint, and they should still be able to find success in their life.

I say. that there’s examples of this all over, success stories of people coming from very little, who succeed to very great amounts. In the end it doesn’t truly matter what you come from, it matters how hard your willing to work, and how almost thick skinned you can be. It’s like the saying that people are defined by the contents of their character, not the color of their skin. This is like hoe people shouldn’t be judged off their primary discourse, but by the content of their character.