On Discourse Analysis in Classrooms: Approaches to Language and Literacy Research (NCRLL Collection)

This book in the NCRLL Collection provides an introductory discussion of discourse analysis of language and literacy events in classrooms. The authors introduce approaches to discourse analysis in a way that redefines traditional topics and provokes the imagination of researchers. For those who have limited knowledge of discourse analysis, this book will help generate new questions about literacy events in classrooms. For those familiar with this research perspective, it will map diverse new approaches.

David Bloome is Professor of Education in the School of Teaching and Learning of The Ohio State University’s College of Education and Human Ecology. Stephanie Power Carter is Associate Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, in the Language Education Department. Beth Morton Christian is Associate Professor of Education at Tennessee State University. Samara Madrid is Assistant Professor in the College of Education at Northern Illinois University. Sheila Otto is Associate Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. Nora Shuart-Faris is an independent scholar in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Mandy Smith is an independent scholar in the Columbus, Ohio, area.