Gee: Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics

I found James Paul Gee's essay titled "Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics" and "What is Literacy?" very interesting in how he gives another meaning to the word discourse. Discourse isn't just something we say, it's what we represent ourselves as. After reading the entire essay, I think that the most substantial thing that stood out to me the greatest was that Gee discussed how language isn't "just how you say it, but what you are and do when you say it" (Gee 525).
How many times have we all noticed someone saying the complete opposite of what they are doing? We title people like those hypocrites, and while Gee wasn't getting at that, I thought it was a comparable word. Like Gee goes on to explain, we can see how this "language" affects interviews, work, home, school, friends, and other social affairs (Gee 525-26). I had never thought of "language" this way; I had always thought of it in terms of the dictionary defintion. Its interesting that language is more than just grammar and sentences. It's actions and representations of a person, and this idea lead into Gee's idea of "Discourses" (Gee 526).