Discourse Analysis and the Study of Classroom Language and Literacy Events: A Microethnographic Perspective / Edition 1

by David Bloome

Overview

Five American academics examine a social linguistic/social interactional approach to discourse analysis which combines attention to how people use language and other communication systems in constructing language and literacy events in classrooms with attention to social, cultural, and political processes. Coverage includes key constructs for a microethnic approach; the use of a microethnographical approach to describe classroom literacy events as cultural action, to explore the social construction of reality, and to explore power relations; and the complexity of locating microethnographic discourse analysis within the field of literacy studies and broader intellectual movements. For scholars and students in language and literacy studies, educational researchers, sociolinguists, sociologists, and anthropologists. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900805853208
Publication date:	08/16/2004
Pages:	284
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)

About the Author

David Bloome, Stephanie Power Carter, Beth Morton Christian, Shelia Otto, Nora Shuart-Faris

Table of Contents

	List of Figures, Tables, Transcripts	vii
	Foreword	ix
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Introduction	xv
1	A Microethnographic Approach to the Discourse Analysis of Classroom Language and Literacy Events	1
2	A Microethnographic Approach to the Discourse Analysis of Cultural Practices in Classroom Language and Literacy Events	50
3	Microethnographic Discourse Analysis and the Exploration of Social Identity in Classroom Language and Literacy Events	101
4	Microethnographic Discourse Analysis and the Exploration of Power Relations in Classroom Language and Literacy Events	159
5	Locating Microethnographic Discourse Analysis Studies of Classroom Language and Literacy Events and the Research Imagination	233
Appendix	Transcription Key	245
	References	247
	Author Index	257
	Subject Index	261

Editorial Reviews

"With this book, Bloome et al. bring to bear powerful, dynamic theoretical and methodological lenses that, through careful discussion and analysis, serve to extend the fields of literacy studies and educational ethnography in terms of both clarity of terminology and warranted methodology....this volume is one starting point to look at power relations in classroom interaction, one that provides an important frame of analysis that can inform many. Through their examination of who does what with language to whom, when, where, how, with what'significance, and for what purpose, this book embodies 'thick description in motion' and will be an important contribution to language and literacy research."
—Linguistics and Education

"Discourse Analysis and the Study of Classroom Language and Literacy Events: A Microethnographic Perspective provides a rich discussion of classroom discourse informed by careful and thoughtful analysis that draws together scholarly advances in sociocultural analysis, sociolinguistics, positionality, identity, power and meaning making. It offers to the field a book which can serve multiple purposes: an introduction to classroom analysis, a discussion of different lenses for exploring the dynamics of classrooms, an exploration of the key theorists in the aforementioned areas, and examples of classroom discourse with analyses that researchers and practitioners can use as the basis for pursuing their own analyses. At the same time, it represents a somewhat rare contribution....collaboration among school-based educators with university scholars. This volume is a timely and significant addition to the field."
—Robert Tierney
University of British Columbia

"[T]his book excels as a rare contribution to the field, with its unique theoretical underpinnings and meticulous application of the theoretical tools on everyday classroom discourse event." —Jasmine C. M. Luk, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies

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