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Papers by David Bloome

Handbook of reading research, Jul 1, 1984

In the last decade, a new conceptualization of reading has emerged. This conceptualization is gro... more In the last decade, a new conceptualization of reading has emerged. This conceptualization is grounded in recent theory and research in sociolinguistics and in the ethnography of communication. From this perspective, reading is viewed not only as a cognitive process, but also as a social and linguistic process. As a social process, reading is used to establish, structure, and maintain social relationships between and among people. As a linguistic process, reading is used to communicate intentions and meanings, not only between an ...

Linguistics and Education, 1992

Routledge eBooks, Jun 17, 2013

Discourse Analysis and the Study of Classroom Language and Literacy Events presents analyses of c... more Discourse Analysis and the Study of Classroom Language and Literacy Events presents analyses of classroom discourse in relation to language and literacy events from a microethnographic perspective. It is a timely publication that reflects increasingly strong concerns over issues ranging from gender, race, identity and power relations within and beyond classrooms. The book contains a forward, an introduction and five chapters. The forward by Brian Street begins the book well on a good note. It is in this forward that Street sets a clear tone by introducing some of the important issues concerning the topic with which the authors engage themselves. He swiftly highlights the authors' laudable efforts to have successfully built a close link between their analysis of linguistic features of social interaction with what Gee (1999) calls the "social turn" in language study that extends from the social nature of identity (i.e., the construction of identity is socially determined), power relations in classroom events, to the role of multiple literacies, which are important topics in discussions on literacy and multiliteracies (e.g., Luke, 2003; New London Group, 1996). He concludes his forward in a fashion with metaphoric use of language by comparing the authors to what Yeats described in his poem; namely, the authors are "dancers in the dance, their glance and their bodies cannot be excluded from the question of choreography posed by Yeats, which runs throughout this elegant and well balanced book" (p. xi). Meanwhile, he cautions that, while it is true that the authors approach the classroom language and literacy events at a micro level, researchers need to analyze their own framing and interpreting of the classroom language and literacy events. Immediately following the forward is the introduction, whose purpose it is to introduce the authors' approach to discourse analysis. The authors explain that the approach they have adopted in the book is basically "social linguistic" or "social interactional" (p. xv) within the large framework that examines the sociology of language use. For the sake of clarity, the authors label it a microethnographic approach. Given the nature of the book (i.e., it is a series of research studies of language and literacy events in classrooms), the authors should be commended for their clear description of their work in the introduction. By virtue the clarity of the introduction, any beginning researchers intending to follow the ethnographic paradigm in methodological orientation or those who are classroom teachers but interested in knowing something about how researchers interpret and frame their daily language-related activities will find that the introduction prepare them well for a sustained reading experience. It is in this introduction that the authors clearly delineate the specific theoretical positions and frameworks for data analysis and interpretation. They state that the particular approach they have adopted in their work builds on sociolinguistic ethnography (i.e., microethnographic), linguistic anthropology, related discussions on human communication, anthropological studies of narratives and poetics,

Routledge eBooks, Sep 23, 2019

Educational Researcher, Apr 1, 1988