On Discourse Analysis in Classrooms: Approaches to Language and Literacy Research

“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