Analysis of current discourse about lifelong learning as the key to economic and social development suggests that its ability to enhance democracy is being compromised. Communities should reclaim lifelong learning for the purpose of the greater public good rather than private profit. (Contains 31 references.) (SK)

Bilinguals in the Southwestern United States use Spanish as an ethnic marker to accept other speakers as members of the in-group, or English to exclude them, in situations in which they have a choice of code. Shows that the choice of code used in El Paso, Texas is based on the perceived ethnicity of the other bilingual speaker. (Author/VWL)

Explores the discourse on working knowledge that subject matter experts use with technical communicators to represent work in organizations. Focuses on the narrative authority of speakers in the discourse process because participants constructing task representations bring distinct viewpoints to the documentation process. Studies imperative…

Examines "expert" discourse--complexes of signs and practices that organize and legitimize social existence and social reproduction--to demonstrate the ideological process involved in the manufacture of Standard English ideology and its continual duplication as necessitated by the three axiomatic conceptions of the English-sacred imagined…

Describes a 2-year series of critical discussions around literature with African American adolescents in an inner-city community. Explains the use of a Critical Discourse Analysis as a pedagogical and analytic tool. Presents an analysis that provides one way of conceptualizing the teaching and learning of critical literacy through a Critical…

Examines the nature and effects of predominant understandings or formulations of the relationship between literacy and work. Evaluates what workplace literacy programs have typically been designed to do. Discusses possible ways for future programs to create real opportunities for all participants to be truly involved in the process of workplace…

Subjects Sack's (1992) conjecture about there being "omni-relevant devices" in specific kinds of conversation to empirical analysis. Examines a data fragment taken from a corpus of materials in which "resettled" mental patients are undergoing "quality of life assessments." (Author/VWL)

Examines an argument about density among a middle school class of 10 students focussing on the argument as an example of a chaotic and complex system, the emerging development of understandings, and the underlying cognitive structures affecting students' understandings. (MM)

A workshop examined facilitated case history discussions as a means whereby teams could share their learning around a common focus. Facilitation enabled interactive, interprofessional education through an informal form of discourse analysis of the transcripts of the case discussions. (Contains 20 references.) (Author/JOW)

This article examines how discourses of leadership reflect and produce particular perceptions about leaders and leadership in higher education. An analysis of 103 articles published by "The Chronicle of Higher Education" between 2002 and 2003 reveal four predominant discourses shaping images of leaders: autonomy, relatedness, masculinity, and…

Based upon an emergent account of pragmatic ability and disability, this article provides theoretical and empirical support for a conceptually deeper understanding of some systematic behaviors that have served as diagnostic indices in communicatively impaired populations. Specifically, by employing conversation analysis, several examples of…

This is a summary of a qualitative study of how gender was created and sustained in an urban kindergarten classroom. By investigating the phenomenon of compulsory heterosexuality and analyzing gender from a feminist poststructuralist perspective, this study explored how young children take an active part ''doing'' gender by socially constructing…

We investigate the planning of cause and consequence in language production by examining participants' continuations to discourse fragments in four experiments. Our studies indicate how the content of the continuation, and the association between the continuation and prior text, are influenced by the nature of prior discourse. People tend to…

Conversation coordinates joint activities and the joint projects that compose them. Participants coordinate (1) vertical transitions on entering and exiting joint projects; and (2) horizontal transitions in continuing within them. Transitions are coordinated using project markers such as uh-huh, yeah, right, and okay. In the authors' proposal,…

At a time when the term "property porn" makes its way onto the pages of the newest dictionaries ("a genre of escapist TV programmes, magazine features etc, showing desirable properties for sale, especially those in idyllic locations, or in need of renovation, or both"; Collins Dictionary 2005 edition), we thought it would be…