On Discourse Analysis in Classrooms

This book in the NCRLL Collection provides an introductory discussion of discourse analysis of language and literacy events in classrooms. The authors introduce approaches to discourse analysis in a way that redefines traditional topics and provokes the imagination of researchers. For those who have limited knowledge of discourse analysis, this book will help generate new questions about literacy events in classrooms. For those familiar with this research perspective, it will map diverse new approaches.

David Bloome is Professor of Education in the School of Teaching and Learning of The Ohio State University’s College of Education and Human Ecology. Stephanie Power Carter is Associate Professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, in the Language Education Department. Beth Morton Christian is Associate Professor of Education at Tennessee State University. Samara Madrid is Assistant Professor in the College of Education at Northern Illinois University. Sheila Otto is Associate Professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University. Nora Shuart-Faris is an independent scholar in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Mandy Smith is an independent scholar in the Columbus, Ohio, area.

“Offers examples of classroom discourse with analyses that researchers and practitioners can use as the basis for pursuing their own analyses.”
—Rob Tierney, Dean, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia

“On Discourse Analysis provokes us to rethink discourse analytic approaches as generative tools that can open up new ways of seeing language and literacy events in classrooms. The authors richly illustrate the complexity and potential of discourse analysis studies with cases that orient us to foreground the local with broader cultural, historical, and social relations in ways that make evident what it means to be human. On Discourse Analysis provides a fresh approach to discourse analysis studies.”
—Kris Gutierrez, University of California at Los Angeles