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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458946603321

Autore

Christie Frances

Titolo

Classroom discourse analysis : a functional perspective / / Frances Christie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2002

ISBN

1-4411-7959-3

1-281-29831-X

9786611298319

1-84714-095-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (207 p.)

Collana

Open linguistics series

Disciplina

371.1022

Soggetti

Communication in education

Interaction analysis in education

Discourse analysis

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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