Gee uses a capitol “D” Discourse and lowercase “d” discourse to differentiate between the two. He explained these as “connected stretches of language”. I slightly understand this but I am a bit confused, I understand that by using the capitalized “D” gives an emphasis on it as a term rather than using “discourse” as a normal word.
When thinking about the passage and the use of the distinction of the words as a sense of understanding genre, I’m having trouble connecting the lines between them. Genre makes me think of a set of guidelines, by making a distinction between the two discourses it makes each word follow its own sets of guidelines. In example Discourse is being used as a term and follows its own set of rules as a term.
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