5th Edition

Social Linguistics and Literacies Ideology in Discourses

By James Gee Copyright 2015
290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

In its first edition, Social Linguistics and Literacies was a major contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of sociocultural approaches to language and literacy, and was one of the founding texts of the ‘New Literacy Studies’. This book serves as a classic introduction to the study of language, learning and literacy in their social, cultural and political contexts. It shows how... Read more

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.