INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: IDEOLOGY
CHAPTER 2: MEANING
CHAPTER 3: LITERACY CRISES
CHAPTER 4: LITERACY AS SOCIAL
CHAPTER 5: ORALITY AND LITERACY: THE GREAT DEVIDE
CHAPTER 6: THE LITERACY MYTH AND THE HISTORY OF LITERACY
CHAPTER 7: THE CAPACITIES OF LITERACY AND PAULO FREIRE
CHAPTER 8: THE NEW LITERACY STUDIES
CHAPTER 9: SOCIAL LANGUAGES, SITUATED MEANINGS, AND CULTURAL MODELS
CHAPTER 10: CULTURAL MODELS/FIGURED WORLDS IN ACTION
CHAPTER 11: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
CHAPTER 12: DISCOURSE ANALYSIS STORIES GO TO SCHOOL
CHAPTER 13: DISCOURSES AND LITERACIES
CHAPTER 14: MORE ON (BIG "D") DISCOURSES
CHAPTER 15: LANGUAGE, INDIVIDUALS, AND DISCOURSES
CHAPTER 16: DISCOURSES, INDIVIDUALS, AND PERFORMANCES
CHAPTER 17: SCIENCE AND THE LIFEWORLD
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Biography
James Paul Gee is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies and a Regents’ Professor at Arizona State University.






