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An Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education

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Excellent introduction 5 out of 5 stars.
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Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in Education has an excellent information part from different approaches and methodological part important for all educators and administrators, who wants to improve and develop policy, implement and provide critical evaluation.

"CDA in Education" edited by Rebecca Rogers contains different approaches to research based on cultural/human, political/economical and social-historical sciences.

I recommand the book for graduate students as well as for the Ph.D students in educational sciences.

Karl Kristian Olsen
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Institute of Arctic Education, Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland)

An introdcution to critical discourse in Education 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book represents a new synthesis of theoretical & empirical work in critical discourse analysis in education. The contribution it makes is to begin to identify the ways in which discourse analytic accounts are connected to theories of learning.

Reclaiming Identity: Realist Theory and the Predicament of Postmodernism

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"Identity" is one of the most hotly debated topics in literary theory and cultural studies. This bold and groundbreaking collection of ten essays argues that identity is not just socially constructed but has real epistemic and political consequences for how people experience the world. Advocating a "postpositivist realist" approach to identity, the essays examine the ways in which theory, politics, and activism clash with or complement each other, providing an alternative to the widely influential postmodernist understandings of identity. Although theoretical in orientation, this dynamic collection deals with specific social groups-Chicanas/os, African Americans, gay men and lesbians, Asian Americans, and others-and concrete social issues directly related to race, ethnicity, sexuality, epistemology, and political resistance.

Satya Mohanty's brilliant exegesis of Toni Morrison's Beloved serves as a launching pad for the collection. The essays that follow, written by prominent and up-and-coming scholars, address a range of topics-from the writings of Cherrie Moraga, Franz Fanon, Joy Kogawa, and Michael Nava to the controversy surrounding racial program housing on college campuses-and work toward a truly interdisciplinary approach to identity.

Stories Of Raymond Carver: A Critical Study

Kirk Nesset

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a creative work in itself 3 out of 5 stars.
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I must admit, I did have some trouble with Mr. Nesset's book. All and all I found the book very entertaining, but I am not convinced for one second that Raymond Carver made a conscience effort to add all the symbols to his stories that Mr. Nesset claims he did. As a fiction writer myself, it is hard enough to just put the words on paper without making a conscience effort at turning every single thing and detail into a symbol relating to the story. I am curious as to whether Carver himself said that the man without hands in "Viewfinder" represented the man's feelings of seperation (dismemberment) from his family. Or if the man throwing rocks from the roof and being captured in a blurred frame from the Poloroid is representive of the man's current state of confusion. I mean, come on, Mr. Nesset, give us a break here. I've always been taught to create memorable characters--and what's more memorable than a man without hands coming to your house to snap photographs of it. Are these figments of your creative imagination or actually Carver's conscience attempts at cramming his stories full of symbols? Also, in the story "Chef's House," why does the wedding ring being tossed into the peach orchard have to be representative of the last falling fruit in a failing marriage? Maybe Carver was eating a peach as he wrote the story. Ever consider that one? All joking aside, I found this book entertaining and enlighting and would recommend it to any Carver fan, but I would, however, read it lightly. Acadamia and fiction writing don't mix. Critics, for the most part, are people who wish they could write fiction. Those who can do. If you're a scholar on an author, you're not that author, and if you're a scholar and an author, than you can't be good at both. So, read Carver's stories for what they are: just simple stories about down trodden people. And don't fool us into believing Carver considered each minute detail he put in his stories. Besides, I once read in an interview with Carver that the black man in his story "Vitamins" was incorporated into the work because he received a wrong-number phone call from what he suspected was a black man while he was writing the story. So is that a symbol or something else? Thank you, J. Michael Campbell.

Local Transcendence: Essays on Postmodern Historicism and the Database (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

Alan Liu

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Driven by global economic forces to innovate, today’s society paradoxically looks forward to the future while staring only at the nearest, most local present—the most recent financial quarter, the latest artistic movement, the instant message or blog post at the top of the screen. Postmodernity is lived, it seems, at the end of history.
In the essays collected in Local Transcendence, Alan Liu takes the pulse of such postmodern historicism by tracking two leading indicators of its acceleration in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: postmodern cultural criticism—including the new historicism, the new cultural history, cultural anthropology, the new pragmatism, and postmodern and postindustrial theory—and digital information technology. What is the relation between the new historicist anecdote and the database field, Liu asks, and can either have a critical function in the age of postmodern historicism? Local Transcendence includes two previously unpublished essays and a synthetic introduction in which Liu traverses from his earlier work on the theory of historicism to his recent studies of information culture to propose a theory of contingent method incorporating a special inflection of history: media history.

A Glossary of Cultural Theory

Peter Brooker

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This glossary provides the researcher and student with lucid and up-to-date guidance through the vibrant and changing debates in cultural studies and related disciplines. In a field where meanings are frequently complex and ambiguous, it has been praised for its clarity and helpfulness. This new edition has been updated throughout. Among the new terms are entries for Ecology, Everyday Life, The Event, Nomadism, Psychogeography, and Taste, along with terms at the cutting edge of new thinking in social and cultural theory such as Convergence, Cosmopolitanism, Cultural Intermediaries, the Posthuman, and Thirdspace. It is an ideal resource for everyone wishing to keep up-to-date with the changing agenda in cultural studies.

Discourse as Social Interaction (Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introductio)

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An excellent introduction, continued 5 out of 5 stars.
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This volume takes a substantially different approach when compared against Volume 1 of the series, Discourse as Structure and Process. Volume 2 is less oriented toward the linguistic micro-scale and broadens the theoretical concern to the sociological level of analysis. Thus, it might be easier to approach for social science readers without a strong background in formal linguistics, and indeed is sufficiently different from Volume 1 so that one can read it independently. Wodak and Fairclough's chapter on critical discourse analysis (CDA) is one of many strong points in this volume.

Highly recommended.

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How do people engage in, and competently manage discourse and interaction with others? How do members of various groups speak among each other and how do they communicate with people of other groups or cultures. What is the role of discourse in the perpetuation or legitimation of sexism or racism?

Whether informal, everyday conversations or professional dialogues, people do many things while they are speaking ro writing. Discourse as Social Interaction focuses on the fundamental funtions of text and talk: interactional, social, political and cultural. It illuminates discourse as not merely form and meaning , but also as action, as both shaping and being shaped by culture.

After Theory

Terry Eagleton

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For anyone forced to wrestle with the likes of Derrida and Foucault during their college days, Terry Eagleton needs no introduction. His clear and accessible primer on literary theory was (and is) an indispensable guide to the post-modern era in the humanities. Now Eagleton argues that the golden age of cultural theory has ended, and with characteristic wit and verve, he traces its rise and fall from structuralism to post-colonial studies and beyond. In a new era of globalization and terrorism, Eagleton warns, the bundle of ideas known as post-modernism is essentially toothless.In this eloquent synthesis of a lifetime of learning, Eagleton challenges contemporary intellectuals to engage with a range of vital topics-love, evil, death, morality, religion, and revolution-that they've ignored over the past thirty years. Lively and provocative, Eagleton's latest will engage readers inside and outside the academy who are eager for a more holistic and humane way of "reading" the world."A rare opportunity to enjoy the art of cultural and social diagnosis at its purest! Eagleton offers a unique combination of theoretical stringency and acerbic common-sense witticism, of critical historical reflection and the ability to ask the 'big' metaphysical questions."-Slavoj Zizek

Argumentation and Critical Decision Making (6th Edition)

Richard D. Rieke, Malcolm O. Sillars, Tarla Rai Peterson

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This Book Could Change Your Life 5 out of 5 stars.
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Not only have I read this book, but I did so in conjunction from taking an argumentation class from the author, Dr. Richard Rieke. Dr. Rieke is an extremely experienced and talented communicator and this book would be a valuable addition to any scholar and layperson alike.

Rieke's background includes mediation and negotiation for some of the most prominent global companies and more than 20 years experience as an educator. Currently he is a Communication professor at the University of Utah and the director of the university's Honor's Program.

What I've learned from this book is how to go about the dialectical process (research, criticial thinking, refuting) an issue to constructing a rhetorical argument (persuasive case) in favor of one side or another. I feel that this book has given me a very strong grasp on how to construct various types of arguments, and how to modify them based on who is supposed to be persuaded by the argument.

One of the things I liked most about this book was it's very detailed and logically organized for the processes of argumentation. A list of terms is presented at the beginning of the chapter, each chapter is subcategorized for maximum orgnization, and each chapter is concluded with a summary and suggested exercises.

Each chapter is detailed with universally used information about how argumentation relates to various spheres (or contexts) like science, religion, business, politics, etc. In addition, the authors provide numerous, clear examples to help you understand their points.

I have used this book in not only preparing a brief and case thesis for the related class, but have used as a guide in creating numerous other essays for other Communications classes.

I will not be selling this textbook back to the university bookstore; instead it has earned a permenant spot in my library because I know I will be referencing it often for other classes, and in business well after I graduate. I feel especially privileged to have been able to take the course from the author, because Rieke is very articulate and an excellent educator.

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The first and most thoroughly developed audience-oriented argumentation text, Argumentation and Critical Decision Making presents argumentation as a cooperative, communicative process. The text examines the general principles of argument in a rigorous yet readable manner and then applies those principles to different spheres of life--law, science, religion, business, and politics--to explore how conventions of argument change when applied to these real-world arenas. Focusing on the dynamics of decision-making and using real-life examples to illustrate principles, this book aims to help readers develop practical argumentation skills within the world of their daily lives.

The Semiotic Challenge

Roland Barthes

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If you've managed to stumble across this review, then you'll likely enjoy the book 5 out of 5 stars.
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I read this after studying Barthe's earlier Elements of Semiology, which serves as a comprehensive, if dry, primer to the methods of structural and textual analysis put into practice in the Semiotic Challenge. Parts of this book are entirely theoretical, concerned with polishing Barthe's meticulous system of interpretation, but the sections on Poe and Jacob's encounter with the angel, in particular, are masterful illustrations of Barthe's catch-all method in practice. I was delighted to discover that oftentimes Barthes is actually quite funny and readable, unlike some of the other big names in French Theory, like Lacan and Derrida, who I find mostly impenetrable. I'd recommend this book particularly to those interested in engaging with some of Barthe's shorter structuralist critiques, before taking up a much longer work like S/Z.

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Most of these essays were written between 1963 and 1973 and constitute either the elements of the semiotic discipline or the analysis of textsranging from the Bible to advertisingin order to determine the site of possible meanings in narratives. Intent on discovering signification's importance in art as well as life, Barthes sets up a rigorous system and puts it to work.

The Syntax of Spoken Arabic: A Comparative Study of Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian, and Kuwaiti Dialects

Kristen E. Brustad

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Excellent piece of work 5 out of 5 stars.
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For me, a budding linguist, it is pure joy to read this type of linguistic work. Brustad covers so many aspcts of spoken arabic in such a professional, ordered and useful manner. Examples are cited from the four dialect regions studied (Moroccan, Egyptian, Syrian and Kuwaiti) to prove each point. They are written in the original arabic (or how they would be written), then transliterated into the romanized script, and then written with the english translation. Nearly every aspect of spoken arabic is discussed here; even the most basic of points (ie differences in singular and plural nouns) are discussed in detail. She uses information from general linguistics, typology, syntax, phonology and compares arabic with other languages for a great description of each dialect region. There are appendices in the back which have the full stories, anecdotes, jokes, etc. collected from her personal data which she uses throughout the book to prove her points. It is in written in the same manner that the examples are written in.

GREAT BOOK! If you are interested in (arabic) linguistics, get this book!

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This book is the first comparative study of the syntax of Arabic dialects, based on natural language data recorded in Morocco, Egypt, Syria, and Kuwait. These four dialect regions are geographically diverse and representative of four distinct dialect groups. Kristen E. Brustad has adopted an analytical approach that is both functional and descriptive, combining insights from discourse analysis, language topology, and pragmatics -- the first time such an approach has been used in the study of spoken Arabic syntax. An appendix includes sample texts from her data. Brustad's work provides the most nuanced description available to date of spoken Arabic syntax, widens the theoretical base of Arabic linguistics, and gives both scholars and students of Arabic tools for greater cross-dialect comprehension.