Author: Christie Frances Christie

This book explores the nature of knowledge, language and pedagogy from the perspective of two complementary theories: systemic functional linguistics, and Bernstein-inspired sociology. Bernstein’s so …

Writing development has been a key area of research in applied linguistics for some time but most work has focused on children”s writing at particular ages, for example, at the early primary, late p …

Basil Bernstein began to develop his theory of social structure and power relations during the 1950s and 1960s. Early in the 1960s he met M. A. K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan, who were developing the …

Disciplinary knowledge is under threat in the modern world. Claims abound that we are entering a landscape in which the division of disciplines is obsolete, implying a commitment to outdated values i …

This book explores the nature of knowledge, language and pedagogy from the perspective of two complementary theories: systemic functional linguistics, and Bernstein-inspired sociology. Bernstein’s so …

This book offers a model of classroom discourse analysis that uses systemic functional linguistic theory and associated genre theory to develop a view of classroom episodes as ”curriculum genres”, …

This book examines genres as instances of social processes, enacting a range of important institutional practices, hence also shaping people’s subjectivities. Genres represent purposive and staged wa …