DISCOURSE
Telling Tales: Changing Discourses of Identity in the 'Global' UK-Published English Language Coursebook
concerns how language is used on site to enact activity and identities
orders of discourse
regimes of truth
the particular
configurations of conventionalized practices
discourses
narratives
genres
the mechanisms and instances which enable one to distinguish true and false statements
the techniques and procedures accorded value in the acquisition of truth
the types of discourse which it accepts and makes function as true
the means by which each is sanctified
Educational discourse
vertical discourse (instructional) - Bernstein, 1996
horizontal discourse
'everyday, oral or common-sense and has a group of features
context dependent
tacit
segmental
multi-layered
local
'it takes the form of a coherent, explicit, systematically principled structure, hierarchically organized
the UK-published coursebook
were core coursebooks specified for classroom use
were among the bestselling global UK-published coursebooks
Approach informed by Altheide's model of Ethnographic Content Analysis (1996)
protocols (lists of 'questions, items, categories that guide data collection from documents')
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general ideas
what settings and contexts are included for the presentation of language
how the learner is positioned
which elements of language and communication are prioritised
what type of texts in general are used and their sources
what types of people are represented
which topics are included
what task types are present
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what learners are asked to do
Discourse of individualism
expressive individualism - defines the person in terms of his capacity to articulate and enact his unique experience, particularly expressions of taste and feeling (Kirkmayer, 2007)