About the Book Using a practical how-to approach, Gee provides the tools necessary to work with discourse analysis, with engaging step-by-step tasks featured throughout the book. Each tool is clearly explained, along with guidance on how to use it, and authentic data is provided for readers to practice using the tools. Readers from all fields will gain both a practical and theoretical backgr…
About the Book Social Media is fast becoming a key area of linguistic research. This highly accessible guidebook leads students through the process of undertaking research in order to explore the language that people use when they communicate on social media sites. This textbook provides: - An introduction to the linguistic frameworks currently used to analyse language found in socia…
About the Book Children, Film and Literacy examines children's engagements with film and how these engagements impact on their developing literacy, identity and textual productions. Review : "Becky Parry's book makes an important case for the interrelationships between children's lived cultures, their experiences of film, and their emerging literacies. The argument is wide ranging, acr…