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.
Table of Contents:
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
