Presentation on Critical Discourse Analysis by James Paul Gee
Today I went to a presentation by James Paul Gee. Here is the information about this presentation: Critical Discourse Analysis James Paul Gee, Tashia Morgridge Professor of Reading at the Universityof Wisconsin-Madison Tuesday, June 26th, 2:30-4:00 School of Education, Room 1225 I like it pretty much. I am lazy. So I will just put some simple notes here: Language for information vs. language for identity non-critical discourse analysis does not exist an example of two compound sentences with the same clauses but the two clauses serve as nucleus and satallite in different sentence: there is no way to write value free sentence equality/solidarity vs. differences "sure" is a very emotional word. It should not appear in academic report since it should be free of emotion. academic language excludes some people. Major failure in school is failure to use and understand the academic language. If students are taught and tested with the vernacular language they are familiar with, ther...