Classroom discourse analysis : a functional perspective / Frances Christie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Christie, Frances, author.

Series:

Open linguistics series.

Open linguistics series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in education.

Interaction analysis in education.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : continuum, [2002]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 distinc

Contents:

Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 A theoretical framework; 2 Early childhood: first steps in becoming a pedagogic subject; 3 Early literacy teaching and learning; 4 Pedagogic discourse and curriculum macrogenres; 5 Pedagogic discourse in an orbital curriculum macrogenre; 6 Pedagogic discourse and the claims of knowledge; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-189) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786611298319

9781441179593

1441179593

9781281298317

128129831X

9781847140951

1847140955

OCLC:

290573723