Classroom Discourse Analysis: A Functional Perspective

by Frances Christie

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826453732
• ISBN13: 9780826453730
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"