Publications

Publication details [#30676]

Edelsky, Carole and Karen Smith. 2002. A Discourse on Academic Discourse. Linguistics and Education 13 (1) : 1–38.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | interaction | literature | teacher

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0898-5898

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study examines the organization of a teacher's discourse in a literature course in an atypical fifth/sixth-grade classroom. Findings show that the talk is aligned with both the school and the 'literati' culture, displaying apprenticeship-style and solidarity strategies.