An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415874297 ISBN 13: 9780415874298

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Rebecca Rogers is Associate Professor of Literacy Studies in the College of Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Review

...may be of interest to second language teachers interested in employing discourse analysis as a means of describing social relations and empowerment issues in the classroom.
—Modern Language Journal

...Roger's introduction covers a lot of useful territory....it is good to see that nearly all of the authors in the volume, from diverse academic backgrounds, are educators.
—Language in Society

...draws upon a range of current sociocultural theories of learning and approaches to critical discourse analysis, and advances both fields by generating new understandings of the relationships among language form and function, social practices, learning, identity, and social change.
—Judith W. Solsken
University of Massachusetts Amherst

This book is an ideal introduction to methods of critical discourse analysis for graduate research methods courses.
—Richard Beach
University of Minnesota

Importantly, and unusually, for an education research methods text, this book combines excellent ethnography and policy accounts with detailed explications of analytical routes. Illuminating stories of teachers' work, young people, policy shifts and parents underlie the varied analyses and their insights. This is not simply a how-to text, but rather a book that has important things to say to educators internationally about the contemporary contexts of our work. Rogers' new collection usefully explores emerging criticisms about CDA's blind-spots and limitations. This book will be widely read by teacher educators, educational researchers and students of CDA across the disciplines.
—Barbara Comber
University of South Australia

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0415874297
• ISBN 13: 9780415874298
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Rogers Rebecca