Post #3 - Lindemman Chapter's 8 & 9

 As I was going through chapter 8., I was going over how discourse is shaped. The first thing that is discussed is form. I find that interesting since we, as writers and readers, hardly pay attention to how form is developed. As Lindemman states, it begins through reading printed material, through nature (interestingly), art, and social and religious rituals. I wanted to inquire further as to how nature is one of the contributing factor of form. Firstly, because it really is something that should be natural and perhaps, unruly. For me, it causes me to pose the question on whether form can be truly be found in nature? Another thought I had as I was reading, is why did we develop these patterns and categories that lead to relationships and decision making. 

Lindemman highlights that form trickles through by language: "In spoken English, the sequence of sounds, their arrangement into words and sentences, even the way we take turns in conversation "compose" speech into comprehensible utterances"(131); it is further discussed that through language, form consciousness is a byproduct. What I found interesting is the development of this through social interaction of others. Thus, posing the question on whether society would have been stunted completely if form was not developed by interacting with one another?  I gather that society's growth weighs heavily on interaction. Otherwise, as Lindemman proposes, we would not be able to develop genres, poems, dialogues, explanations, and arguments. Overall, understanding the development of form was interesting.