Blog 2.. Gee

Gee's article was well kind of confusing to me in a way. I felt like I was understanding what he was saying, but then I would find myself gettin lost in the text, or just not quite comprehending what was being said. What I think Gee's article was about, was Discourse. He explained that theyre can be a primary discourse and a secondary discourse. He also explained in detail about how and what discourse is and how we use it in our everyday lives even though what were doing may not seem like we would be demonstarting a discourse. He explained how discourse cant really be taught its just something you have to pick up on and do. He said aline something along the lines of discourse is a lingustics, and you cant be taught lingustics you just have to be or do lingustics. Towards the end of his paper, Gee connected Discourse with literacy, and how reading should be considered part of a discourse. Like I said, I'm not entirely sure if I picked up the whole jist of his paper, but I tried to make sense out of what I could.

I am kind of torn with Gee's reasonin of what a discourse is I think that based off his deffinition of what discourses are, it could be connected easily with the many diffentions of Literacy. I think the two words go hand in hand with each other. To be literate at something means your skilled or knowledgeable in that aspect of a trade or enviorment. With discourse you are also showing that you know how to do something such as reading. Gee spent his paper trying to decipher the differences between the two words and show how theyre different but in my opinion i still think they are closely related.
Questions:
1. If your an expert at something, lets say a mechainc for instance, would that just be an example of discourse, or would that mean you show your literate in the subject of how to fix cars?
2.Gee says on page 526 that "a discourse is like an "idenity kit" which comes complete with the appropriate costume and instuctions on how to act, and talk...etc" However how does one know when to use which type of discourse? Is there set rules? Or is it to each their own opinion.