During the past decade educational researchers increasingly have turned to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as a set of approaches to answer questions about the relationships between language and society. In this article the authors review the findings of their literature review of CDA in educational research. The findings proceed in the following manner: the multiple ways in which CDA has been defined, the theories of language included in CDA frameworks, the relationship of CDA and context, the question of methods, and issues of reflexivity. The findings illustrate that as educational researchers bring CDA frameworks into educational contexts, they are reshaping the boundaries of CDA.

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Critical Discourse Analysis in Education: A Review of the Literature

1. A Theoretical Framework 2. Early Childhood: First Steps in Becoming a Pedagogic Subject 3. Early Literacy Teaching and Learning 4. Pedagogic Discourse in Curriculum Macrogenres 5. Pedagogic Discourse in an Orbital Curriculum Macrogenre 6. Pedagogic Discourse and the Claims of Knowledge

Classroom Discourse Analysis: A Functional Perspective

On RA abstracts: from rhetorical structure to thematic organisation ☆

This paper analyses how three distinct cohorts of workers in a recently merged UK-based College of Further Education understood their group and their organization's identities. We focus in particular, but not exclusively on how the groups’ shared understandings of ‘place’ informed their identity accounts. Identities are theorized as being constituted within discursive regimes, and place treated as a discursive resource on which individuals and groups may draw in their attempts to author versions of their selves. In our case, understandings of place were also a resource on which some people drew in nostalgic reminiscence, and others used to fantasize about their preferred futures for the college. Framed by our intention to identify plurivocal native interpretations of place and identity in ways that promote the reading of polysemy back into case research, the contribution this paper makes is threefold. First, it adds to efforts to theorize organizations and identities as unstable social constructions constituted through acts of languaging. Second, it illustrates how different groups of local actors with distinct histories and value preferences may draw on their place of work in order to author contrasting versions of their organization's identity. Finally, our paper analyses the attempts made by senior managers and groups of other staff to define their organization in particular ways, as hegemonic ‘moves’ in an ongoing struggle for control over the organization as a discursive space.

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Organizational Identity and Place: A Discursive Exploration of Hegemony and Resistance

Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) is a theory of text organization that has led to areas of application beyond discourse analysis and text generation, its original goals. In this article, we review...

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Applications of Rhetorical Structure Theory

1. Reflections on subject and theme: An introduction (by Hasan, Ruqaiya) 2. 1. Approaching the French clause as a movie in dialogue: interpersonal organisation (by Caffarel, Alice) 3. 2. Mood and the Ecosocial dynamics of semiotic exchange (by Thibault, Paul J.) 4. 3. The English 'tag question': A new analysis, is(n't) it? (by McGregor, William B.) 5. 4. "Nothing" makes sense in Weri: A case of extensive ellipsis of nominals in a Papuan language (by Boxwell, Maurice) 6. 5. Subjectlessness and Honorifics in Japanese: A case of Textual contrual (by Hori, Motoko) 7. 6. A dynamic perspective: implications for metafunctional interaction and an understanding of theme (by Ravelli, Louise J.) 8. 7. On theme in Chinese: from clause to discourse (by Yan, Fang) 9. 8. A systematic functional approach to the thematic structure of the old English clause (by Cummings, Michael J.) 10. 9. Themes, methods of development, and texts (by Fries, Peter H.) 11. 10. Defining and relating text segments: subject and theme in discourse (by Cloran, Carmel) 12. Index

On subject and theme : a discourse functional perspective

In recent years, a number of linguists have been interested in the flow of
information in texts.1 I have been using a systemic-functional approach to
discourse analysis to demonstrate the usefulness of the concept of Theme. As
a part of that endeavour, it is necessary to develop a better description of
Theme. Halliday has defined Theme in the following terms.

On Theme, Rheme and discourse goals

Introduction Generic and Register Qualities of Texts and Their Realization Opinion Texts in Conversation Patterns of Information in Initial Position in English Generic Expectancies and Discoursal Surprises: John Donne's The Good Morrow Intertextuality and Text Semantics The Social Production of Language: History and Structures of Domination Knowledge and Laughter: An Approach to a Socio-Cognitive Linguistics A Systemic-Functional Semiotics of Art The Conception of Contexts in Text Bibliography Subject Index

Peter H. Fries

Papers

On subject and theme : a discourse functional perspective

On Theme, Rheme and discourse goals

Discourse in Society: Systemic Functional Perspectives

Patterns of information in initial position in English

Reflections on subject and theme: An introduction