Bøker av Jay L. Lemke

Working from transcripts of recordings made in real science classrooms, this volume goes beyond previous work on the organization of classroom discourse to show how the conceptual content of a specialized subject is actually communicated through the semantic patterns that teachers and students weave with language.

Textual politics is about meaning - the meaning we make with words and with the symbolic values of every object and action. This text discusses the relationship between discourse and the notions of power and ideology, and then applies these concepts to issues such as gender and class.