Discourse Analysis of Language, Literacy, Culture, and Teaching

An essential text on discourse theory and analytic methods, this book demonstrates the possibilities of using discourse analysis to better understand language, literacy, culture, and teaching. Each chapter provides coherent, extended examples of individuals engaged in the process of doing discourse analysis. The narrative approach highlights the individual experiences of the discourse analysts and provides a unique, inside-the-mind view of the process and choices along the way. Across the book, stories describe processes involved in analyses, including identifying aims, formulating questions, selecting discourse, transcribing oral and multimodal discourse, translating discourse, chunking discourse, choosing and applying discourse and other theory, generating and supporting claims, and communicating findings. Chapters also feature sidebars with key theories and methods, recommended readings, and additional resources. This book is ideal for courses on discourse analysis, qualitative research, or language, literacy, culture, and teaching. Readers are invited to imagine the possibilities for using discourse analysis to answer their own questions.

Denise Ives is Associate Professor of Literacy, a discourse analyst, and a teacher educator at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Contributor Biographies Acknowledgements Preface Foreword Chapter 1 Finding a Way In to Discourse Analysis: An Introduction Denise Ives Chapter 2 Reading Power in Narratives about Girls through Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis Cara Crandall and Denise Ives Chapter 3 Analyzing Discursive Performances of Nonlocal Fanship Blaine Huber and Denise Ives Chapter 4 Investigating a Former Teacher's Perceptions of the Problems in Education Danielle DuShane and Denise Ives Chapter 5 Investigating Discourses of Elementary Mathematics Instruction Denise Ives and Haijing Jing Chapter 6 Researching Multilingual Learners' Situated Use of Language in After-School Contexts Hengyi Liu and Denise Ives Chapter 7 Using Narrative Theory to Design Compelling Brand Stories Denise Ives and Kyungin Ryu Chapter 8 Exploring the Ideological Becoming of Secondary Teachers During Critical, Dialogic Professional Development Denise Ives and Maria McSorley Chapter 9 Researching the Development of Critical Literacies in an Elementary Chinese-English Dual Language Program Marsha Jing-Ji Liaw and Denise Ives Chapter 10 Critical Discourse Analysis and Cultural Representations in a College Arabic Classroom Shaimaa Moustafa and Denise Ives Chapter 11 Analyzing Discourse in Cultural Texts as a Teacher and Researcher Denise Ives and Wenyan Yang Chapter 12 Investigating Composing Practices of an Emergent Bilingual During Emergency Remote Schooling Ysaaca Axelrod and Denise Ives Chapter 13 Conclusion Denise Ives Index