Tools of Enquiry It is about How we built the seven building tasks.

''Theoretical Tools'', Gee draws on theories from cognitive psychology, sociolinguistics, literary criticism, psychological anthropology, cultural anthropology, cultural psychology and philosophy to present his last discourse analytical tools. There are four mains tools which are; Discourse, Conversation, Social Language and Intertextuality.

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Discourse How the speaker or listener manipulates language and ways of acting, interacting, thinking, believing, valuing, feeling, dressing and using various objects, tools and technologies to enact particular social identities and engage in social activities. This tool is the compendium of Gee's famous distinction between ''discourse'' with a little ''d'' and ''discourse'' with a capital ''D''. The former refers solely to language-in-use whereas the latter implies language plus ''other stuff'', such as beliefs, ideas, emotions, means, places and so on.

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Conversation Specific meanings that listeners/readers attribute to words/phrases given the context and how the context is constructed. Shared experiences and background knowledge are seen as a prerequisite.

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Social Language How words and grammatical structures can signal and enact a given social language, that is to say styles or varieties of a language that are associated with a particular social identity. The communication may blend two or more social languages or switch between two or more. Conversely, a social language can be composed by words and phrases from more than one language.

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Intertextuality

How lexical and grammatical items can be used to quote, refer to or allude to other ''texts'' or other styles of language. By referring to the world outside the text or the interpreters schemata.

Examples : Tools of inquiry Social Languages Text is institutional in nature and content Discourses 1. 2. 3. Employment/Looking for Work Writing/English/Literacy Education

Intertextuality 1. 2. Part of a series of futuredirections worksheets published by the Australian Government Links to more on this topic and other employment based documents

Conversations 1. 2. 3. 4. Job Searching/Gaining Employment (and the letters role in the whole process) Composing the letter Writing the letter Checking the letter