Dear Gill and everybody-
Gill wrote, "I'm looking at using a concordancer for some of my data
analysis and incorporating some techniques from corpus linguistics to
compare Government and teacher 'education language'. I'm hoping that from
the comparison I will be able to tease out evidence of how teachers think
about the proces of teaching and what 'education' means to them."
Although you are specifically interested in teachers, it will be interesting
to study how 'education language' 'travels' through educational system
including parents, children, policymakers, school administration,
politicians. (Latourian analysis of education).
So how are you going to plan/design your research?
I'm not familiar with work of Stubbs, Susan Hunston, Norman Fairclough. Can
you elaborate on them please?
Thanks,
Eugene
-----Original Message-----
From: Gill Boag-Munroe [mailto:gillboag@yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 5:14 AM
To: ematusov@UDel.Edu
Cc: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
Subject: RE: RE: Activity Theory and tools for analysing language
Thanks Eugene. I have found Gee's work useful - especially in defining
'discourse', and I like Andy Hargreaves' work, too. I think Jay Lemke's
text is on my pile of 'reading to do', but I was unaware of the relatedness
of Latour's text, so an especial thank you for that.
I'm looking at using a concordancer for some of my data analysis and
incorporating some techniques from corpus linguistics to compare Government
and teacher 'education language'. I'm hoping that from the comparison I
will be able to tease out evidence of how teachers think about the proces of
teaching and what 'education' means to them. And how it parallels/deviates
from Government thinking. I've found the work of Michael Stubbs and Susan
Hunston helpful here. And again, Norman Fairclough does something similar
in his 'New Labour, New Language?' (2000).
Regards
Gill
Gill Boag-Munroe
23 Shenstone Avenue
Norton
Stourbridge
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01384 863590
gxb822@bham.ac.uk
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