The Textbook As Discourse

Author : Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.,Annis N. Shaver,Manuel Bello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136860638

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The Textbook as Discourse by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.,Annis N. Shaver,Manuel Bello Pdf

The central assumption of The Textbook as Discourse is this: interpreted in the flow of history, textbooks can provide important insights into the nature and meaning of a culture and the social and political discourses in which it is engaged. This book is about the social, political and cultural content of elementary and secondary textbooks in American education. It focuses on the nature of the discourses—the content and context—that represent what is included in textbooks. The term "discourse" provides the conceptual framework for the book, drawing on the work of the French social theorist Michel Foucault. The volume includes classic articles and book chapters as well as three original chapters written by the editors. To enhance its usefulness as a course text, each chapter includes an Overview, Key Concepts, and Questions for Reflection.

Author : Bello Provenzo, Jr.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0805859845

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The Textbook as Discourse by Bello Provenzo, Jr. Pdf

Author : Germán Canale
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000632835

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A Multimodal and Ethnographic Approach to Textbook Discourse by Germán Canale Pdf

This book offers a new framework for analysing textbook discourse, bridging the gap between contemporary ethnographic approaches and multimodality for a contextually sensitive approach which considers the multiplicity of multimodal resources involved in the production and use of textbooks. The volume makes the case for textbook discourse studies to go beyond studies of textual representation and critically consider the ways in which textbook discourse is situated within wider social practices. Each chapter considers a different social semiotic practice in which textbook and textbook discourse is involved: representation, communication, interaction, learning, and recontextualization. In bringing together this work with contemporary ethnography scholarship, the book offers a comprehensive toolkit for further research on textbook discourse and pushes the field forward into new directions. This innovative book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in discourse analysis, multimodality, social semiotics, language and communication, and curriculum studies.

Author : Gillian Brown,George Yule
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1983-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521284759

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Discourse Analysis by Gillian Brown,George Yule Pdf

An exploration of how any language produced by man, spoken or written, is used to communicate for a purpose and within a context.

Author : Susan Strauss,Parastou Feiz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136328084

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Discourse Analysis by Susan Strauss,Parastou Feiz Pdf

This introductory textbook presents a variety of approaches and perspectives that can be employed to analyze any sample of discourse. The perspectives come from multiple disciplines, including linguistics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, all of which shed light on meaning and the interactional construction of meaning through language use. Students without prior experience in discourse analysis will appreciate and understand the micro-macro relationship of language use in everyday contexts, in professional and academic settings, in languages other than English, and in a wide variety of media outlets. Each chapter is supported by examples of spoken and written discourse from various types of data sources, including conversations, commercials, university lectures, textbooks, print ads, and blogs, and concludes with hands-on opportunities for readers to actually do discourse analysis on their own. Students can also utilize the book’s comprehensive companion website, with flash cards for key terms, quizzes, and additional data samples, for in-class activities and self-study. With its accessible multi-disciplinary approach and comprehensive data samples from a variety of sources, Discourse Analysis is the ideal core text for the discourse analysis course in applied linguistics, English, education, and communication programs.

Author : Rebecca Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136861475

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An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education by Rebecca Rogers Pdf

Accessible yet theoretically rich, this landmark text introduces key concepts and issues in critical discourse analysis and situates these within the field of educational research. The book invites readers to consider the theories and methods of three major traditions in critical discourse studies – discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, and multimodal discourse analysis -- through the empirical work of leading scholars in the field. Beyond providing a useful overview, it contextualizes CDA in a wide range of learning environments and identifies how CDA can shed new insights on learning and social change. Detailed analytic procedures are included – to demystify the process of conducting CDA, to invite conversations about issues of trustworthiness of interpretations and their value to educational contexts, and to encourage researchers to build on the scholarship in critical discourse studies. This edition features a new structure; a touchstone chapter in each section by a recognized expert (Gee, Fairclough, Kress); and a stronger international focus on both theories and methods. NEW! Companion Website with Chapter Extensions; Interviews; Bibliographies; and Resources for Teaching Critical Discourse Analysis.

Author : Rodney H. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : 0415610001

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Discourse Analysis by Rodney H. Jones Pdf

This volume provides an overview of the major approaches and methodological tools used in discourse analysis, introducing both traditional perspectives on the analysis of texts and spoken discourse, as well as more recent approaches that address technologically mediated and multimodal discourse.

Author : John Flowerdew,John E. Richardson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317576501

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The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies by John Flowerdew,John E. Richardson Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Discourse Studies provides a state-of-the-art overview of the important and rapidly developing field of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS). Forty-one chapters from leading international scholars cover the central theories, concepts, contexts and applications of CDS and how they have developed, encompassing: approaches analytical methods interdisciplinarity social divisions and power domains and media. Including methodologies to assist those undertaking their own critical research of discourse, this Handbook is key reading for all those engaged in the study and research of Critical Discourse Analysis within English Language and Linguistics, Communication, Media Studies and related areas.

Author : Jan Renkema,Christoph Schubert
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263100

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Introduction to Discourse Studies by Jan Renkema,Christoph Schubert Pdf

This new edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies (IDS) is a thoroughly revised and updated version of this successful textbook, which has been published in four languages and has become a must-read for anyone interested in the analysis of texts and discourses. Supported by an international advisory board of 14 leading experts, it deals with all main subdomains in discourse studies, from pragmatics to cognitive linguistics, from critical discourse analysis to stylistics, and many more. The book approaches major issues in this field from the Anglo-American and European as well as the Asian traditions. It provides an ‘academic toolkit’ for future courses on discourse studies and serves as a stepping stone to the independent study of professional literature. The chapters are subdivided in modular sections that can be studied separately. The pedagogical objectives are further supported by over 500 index entries covering frequently used concepts that are accurately defined with examples throughout the text; more than 150 test-yourself questions, all elaborately answered, which are ideal for self-study; nearly 100 assignments that provide ample material for lecturers to focus on specific topics in their courses. Jan Renkema is Emeritus Professor of Discourse Quality at the Department of Communication and Information Sciences at Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He is also editor of Discourse, of Course (2009) and author of The Texture of Discourse (2009). In 2009, a Chinese edition of Introduction to Discourse Studies was published by Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press. Christoph Schubert is Full Professor of English Linguistics at Vechta University, Germany. He is author of an Introduction to English text linguistics (2nd ed. 2012) and co-editor of Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse (2016) and Variational Text Linguistics (2016).

Author : Concepción Orna-Montesinos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443836999

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Constructing Professional Discourse by Concepción Orna-Montesinos Pdf

This book explores the fascinating role that language plays in the construction of non-verbal objects by mapping out the ontological meaning of the specialised concepts and the domain-specific knowledge embedded in them. In doing so, it provides a comprehensive linguistic insight into the discourse of professional domain-specific communities and hence, into the communication practices and procedures of those communities. In this respect, the book offers a response to the claims made by many of the most influential applied linguists today, such as Vijay Bhatia (1993, 2004), John Swales (1990, 2004) or Ken Hyland (2002), among others, who have consistently defended the need for applied linguistic research into the textual, generic and social perspectives on the under-researched interrelatedness of the discoursal and professional practices of a discipline. Specifically, this book provides readers with an integrative multi-perspective approach to the study of professional, domain-specific discourses. While it mainly draws on the tenets of genre theory and discourse semantics, it also nurtures from the theoretical and empirical foundations of applied linguistics, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics and ontological engineering. The book starts from the analysis of domain specific texts as final written products with specific lexico-grammatical, semantic and rhetorical features to later enquire into the written products as textual artefacts closely linked to the social context of production and interpretation of the text. This integrative approach provides fresh new insights into the way the processes of writing are affected by the community-specific, institutional and socio-historical circumstances in which domain-specific texts are produced.

Author : J. Renkema
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Discourse analysis
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004100538

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Discourse Studies by J. Renkema Pdf

Aims to familiarize the student with the key concepts and the major issues in the field of discourse studies. It looks at the basic concepts and phenomena as well as specific types of discourse. Also covered are the production and perception of discourse.

Author : Deborah Schiffrin
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 063119648X

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Approaches to Discourse by Deborah Schiffrin Pdf

Approaches to Discourse is a guide to the various frameworks, concepts, and methods available for the analysis of discourse within linguistics.

Author : James Paul Gee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317820574

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An Introduction to Discourse Analysis by James Paul Gee Pdf

Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis examines the field and presents James Paul Gee’s unique integrated approach which incorporates both a theory of language-in-use and a method of research. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis can be used as a stand-alone textbook or ideally used in conjunction with the practical companion title How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit. Together they provide the complete resource for students studying discourse analysis. Updated throughout, the fourth edition of this seminal textbook also includes two new chapters: ‘What is Discourse?’ to further understanding of the topic, as well as a new concluding section. A new companion website www.routledge.com/cw/gee features a frequently asked questions section, additional tasks to support understanding, a glossary and free access to journal articles by James Paul Gee. Clearly structured and written in a highly accessible style, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis includes perspectives from a variety of approaches and disciplines, including applied linguistics, education, psychology, anthropology and communication to help students and scholars from a range of backgrounds to formulate their own views on discourse and engage in their own discourse analysis. This is an essential textbook for all advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of discourse analysis.

Author : Moira Chimombo,Robert L. Roseberry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136496950

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The Power of Discourse by Moira Chimombo,Robert L. Roseberry Pdf

This volume is intended for students who desire a practical introduction to the use of language in daily and professional life. It may be used either as part of a course or as an aid to independent study. Readers will find that concepts relating to language and discourse are highlighted in the text, explained clearly, illuminated through examples and practice exercises, and defined in the "Glossary/Index" at the back of the book. Divided into two parts, this text presents an introduction to the elements and practice of discourse analysis in general, as well as an introduction to the actual kinds of discourse crucial to personal and professional life. In Part I, examples and practice exercises are used which make use of a variety of genres common in daily and professional life. Genres included are advertising, biography, travel guide, news clipping, prose fiction, students' writing, telephone conversation, poetry, police-suspect interview, face-to-face conversation, war cry, political speech, medical text, legislation, textbook, discourse of the mentally disturbed, and detective fiction among others. Wherever feasible, authentic examples are used. Part II of the book applies the principles and techniques of Part I to an investigation of discourse in daily use. Chapters include discourse in education, medicine, law, the media, and literature. Not only will these be of particular interest to students planning to enter any of these professions, but will also be of general interest, since all of us encounter them in daily life. As a result, this is a very practical book.

Author : Giovanni Parodi
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027223142

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Academic and Professional Discourse Genres in Spanish by Giovanni Parodi Pdf

"Parodi and his collaborators, in this inspiring volume, provide an insightful model for the analysis of construction, interpretation and use of academic and professional genres." Vijay K. Bhatia, City University of Hong Kong --Book Jacket.