| Classroom Discourse Analysis: A Functional Perspective Contributor(s): Christie, Frances (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826453732 ISBN-13: 9780826453730 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $242.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2005 Annotation: This book offers a model of classroom discourse analysis that uses systemic functional linguistic theory and associated genre theory to develop a view of classroom episodes as "curriculum genres, " some of which operate in turn as part of larger unities of work called "curriculum macrogenres." The book explores the model and demonstrates the methodology of school discourse analysis in considerable detail. The methodology is set out, explained and exemplified in selections of classroom texts, both spoken and written, and over a range of subject areas, that cover the years of schooling from the preparatory or kindergarten class to the secondary school. Overall, schools emerge as major sites of symbolic control in a culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - General - Religion | Biblical Studies - Old Testament - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 371.102 |
| LCCN: 2002071645 |
| Series: Open Linguistics Series |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.48" W x 9.46" (0.98 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book offers a model of classroom discourse analysis that uses systemic functional linguistic theory and associated genre theory to develop a view of classroom episodes as 'curriculum genres', some of which operate in turn as part of larger unities of work called 'curriculum macrogenres'. Drawing on Bernstein's work, Christie argues that two registers operate in pedagogic discourse: a regulative register, to do with the goals and directions of the discourse; and an instructional register, to do with the particular 'content' or knowledge at issue. Each can be shown to be realized in distinctive clusters of choices in the grammar. The operation of the regulative register determines the initiation, pacing, sequencing and evaluation of the overall pedagogic activity. The book sets out the its methodology in detail by reference to a number of classroom texts, and a range of school subjects. Overall, schools emerge as sites of symbolic control in a culture. |