3rd Edition
Social Linguistics and Literacies Ideology in Discourses
256 Pages
by
Routledge
This fully-updated new edition engages with topics such as orality and literacy, the history of literacy, the uses and abuses of literacy in that history, the analysis of language as cultural communication, and social theories of mind and meaning, among many other topics. It represents the most current statement of a widely discussed and used theory about how language functions in society, a... Read more
Part 1: Background: Ideology and Theory - The Moral Basis of Discourse Analysis Literacy - From Plato to Freire. Background to the 'New Literacy Studies'. Part 2: Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Language and Meaning - Humans as Choosers and Guessers Discourses and Society - Language Caught up in the Social World. Part 3: A Theory of Discourses: Discourses and Literacies - Two Theorems Individuals, Acts and Discourses - Humans in the Act of Making and Being Made by their Discourses
Biography
Professor James Paul Gee is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University, US.
