Presentation on Critical Discourse Analysis by James Paul Gee

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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, there should not be so many failures.
  • engage in language teaching in the area kids have expertise
  • vernacular language can be vague: you need to be there to understand what exactly a person means
  • After playing a game multiple times, you understand the arcane introduction immediately. If you live in a world for a long time, you cannot fail to undersand the language of that world.
  • Therefore, teach child in a language which is in their world.

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