The language others speak to us, from childhood, shapes the attitudes and beliefs that ground how we use all our powers of action. - Jay Lemke

Minds are formed by our social interactions in a community and a culture.

The role of discourse in society is active; it not only re-confirms and re-enacts existing social relationships and patterns of behavior, it also renegotiates social relationships and introduces new meanings and new behaviors.

A discourse, a way of speaking, is considered less scientific, or even rendered ‘unscientific’ exactly to the extent that it includes elements either of the language of feeling or of the language of action and values.