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Publication details [#31225]

Moore, Timothy E. 2002. Knowledge and agency: a study of 'metaphenomenal discourse' in textbooks from three disciplines. English for Specific Purposes 21 (4) : 347–366.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | knowledge representation | pedagogy | textbook

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0889-4906 0021-9924

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines variation in knowledge and agency construction in textbooks from three disciplines, -sociology, economics and physics–, using Halliday's notion of "metaphenomenon", and discusses the pedagogical and ideological implications.