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Discourse analysis building tasks: as Gee(1999) mentioned is mainly the study of language in use. When or wherever we speak orally or write a text we as humans communicate, through building things or thoughts by facilitating words and sentences through language. Enabling cohesive and coherent context by using the seven building tasks which are significance, practices (activities), identities, relationships, politics, connections, sign systems and knowledge.

Seven building tasks: is a written and spoken context that builds up a proper meaning for a certain situation by identifying these certain aspects.

1-      Significance: There are many things in life that are considered important or significant by everybody’s standards, but for many things, people use language to render the things that they value as significant or not significant to them. For example using words such as sure or interestingly.

2-      Practices (activities): A “practice “means a socially or culturally recognized and supported endeavor that regularly involves a sequenced or combined actions in a specific way. For example the act of informing someone.

3-      Identities: is creating a certain role that follows specific characteristics that describes a person, an identity that we explicitly or implicitly compare or contrast with our own. For example a student or a teacher.

4-        Relationships: we use language to show what sort relationship we have or want to have with the respondent

5-       Politics: is the use of language to convey a perspective on something or someone .for example the use of language to show that you blame someone or convey a vague attitude towards a situation.

6-      Connection: connecting certain relevant or not relevant things with other different things together by the use of language. For example connecting a certain state with a certain religion.

7-      Sign system and knowledge: we can use language to make certain sign systems and certain forms of knowledge and believes or not in a given situations.

Reference:

Gee, J. P. (1999). An introduction to discourse analysis: theory and method. London and New York: Routledge.