“Instead of talking about meaning making as something that is done by minds, I prefer to talk about it as a social practice in a community. It is a kind of doing that is done in ways that are characteristic of a community, and its occurrence is part of what binds the community together and helps to constitute it as a community.”

—  Jay Lemke

Source: Textual politics: Discourse and social dynamics, 1995, p. 9

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