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Social Linguistics And Literacies: Ideology in Discourse

James Paul Gee

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Part 1 Background: ideology and theory - the moral basis of discourse analysis literacy - from Plato to Freire background to the new literacy studies. Part 2 Introduction to sociolinguistics: language and meaning - humans as choosers and guessers discourses and society - language caught up in the social world. Part 3 A theory of discourses: discourses and literacies - two theorems individuals, acts and discourses - humans in the act of making and being made by their discourses.

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Key concepts: Ideology, Sociolinguistics, Sociology, Meaning (existential), Literacy, Discourse analysis, Linguistics, Applied linguistics