This article examines media coverage of a high school Native American mascot controversy. Discourse analysis of media documents and artifacts was utilized to explore how the issue was socially constructed for public consumption. Critical race feminism was used as a framework to examine how media discourses can oversimplify the complex interaction…

This study describes the characteristics of pre-service teachers' discourse on a WebCT Bulletin Board in their investigations of local streams in an integrated mathematics and science course. A qualitative analysis of data revealed that the pre-service teachers conducted collaborative discourse in framing their research questions, conducting…

Written interaction between pre-service teachers engaged in progressive inquiry using Knowledge Forum in two intense summer courses were analyzed to detect and rank those students in terms knowledge sharing, pressing on for further inquiry and the number of partners they communicated with. Social network analysis techniques were employed to…

The tales we tell here focus on the ethical issues arising from our research practice with vulnerable young participants and those for whom research has been inextricably linked with European imperialism and colonialism. The importance of relational obligations, temporality and potential for a continuing narrative approach to ethical research…

The Answers in Genesis Creation Museum opened in May of 2007. During the opening day, a loosely affiliated group of scientists joined in a Rally for Reason as they termed it to protest the museum's potential effect on science in the United States. This paper discusses ethnographic data collected before and during the rally. Scientist narratives…

Designers who consult behavioral scientists may tend to consider them either omnipotent or impotent because the term "behavioral science" has no clear referents. There are confusions in the meaning of "behavior" that can influence the designer's acceptance of the behavioral scientist's advice: he must beware of confusing the need for an enduring…

Examines the specific role of rhetoric in philosophical argumentation. Suggests that one way to understand the rhetorical impact of a philosophical argument is in terms of the claim that rhetoric is a "wedge." (NKA)

Employs Kenneth Burke's sociological criticism to study the discourse of the 1984 nominating conventions. Finds that the parties organized narratives that followed distinct assessments of political reality as the Democrats told a story following a "fear and fairness" theme, while the Republicans relied on a "prosperity and…

Raises the question of when extraordinary measures are justified in interpreting a discourse. Questions whether the same decoding strategies should be used to derive meaning from a schizophrenic's discourse as from that of a nonschizophrenic. (FL)

Uses the example of an abortion case to illustrate the precedence of juridic power over judiciary reality. (AM)

Analyzes the argumentational structure of a legal document. (AM)

States when Chicana feminists refuse to accept mainstream definitions of themselves and insist that they establish and affirm their own identity, they build a space through discourse. Describes the three-step process by which they do this: carving out their own space, turning this space into a home with connections to family, and building…

Examines colloquial uses of "like" as a discourse marker with the goal of specifying its discourse functions, including semantic, pragmatic, and sociopragmatic aspects of meaning. Data presented come from nine interviews. (Author/VWL)

Introduces the special issue of this journal on microanalyses of classroom discourse, providing an explanation of the how the issue is organized and describing each of the five articles contained. (Author/VWL)

Highlights the articles included in this special issue, which focus on a common set of questions that permit readers to read contrastively across articles with differing goals, data sets, and analytic traditions. (Author/VWL)