Adding a new introduction and two previously unpublished papers, Discourse and Practice:
New Tools for Critical Discourse Analysis brings together van Leeuwen's methodological …

In this book I have attempted to document the stage my work has reached since I first
became interested in discourse analysis in 1968. I was a first year student at the time, in …

This book is about the use of language in the science classroom. It discusses the evolution
of scientific discourse for learning in secondary schools, and examines the form and function …

The field of Systemic Functional Linguistics is a social semiotic approach to language
pioneered by MAK Halliday, which has assumed a central importance in linguistics in recent …

What about this quote identifies it to the reader as the discourse of science? How did these
features evolve into what we recognize as scientific English? In the papers included in this …

Literacy remains a contentious and polarized educational, media and political issue. What
has emerged from the continuing debate is a recognition that literacy in education is allied …

The paper presents a framework for describing the representation of social action in English
discourse, attempting to relate sociologically relevant categories of action to their …

Discourses are tools—they do things. That is why they have evolved and thus their
functionality determines their character. But because discourses are semiotic tools (and …

A significant educational development that has occurred in Australia in recent years has
been the emergence of the genre-based approach to the teaching of writing. The theoretical …

Contradictory discourses surround literacy pedagogy and policy in Australia. No longer is it
taken for granted that literacy has a common meaning. Increasingly educators are writing …