Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD)

Author: Rebecca Rogers Collective authorship Binding: Paperback List price: $36.50 USD Amazon price: $33.01 USD Get it from: | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.ca | Amazon.co.jp | Amazon.de | Amazon.fr |

Amazon.com editorial review: In this groundbreaking cross-discplinary book, Rogers explores the complexity of family literacy practices through an in-depth case study of one family, the attendant issues of power and identity, and contemporary social debates about the connections between literacy and society. The study focuses on June Treader and her daughter Vicky, Urban African Americans labeled as "low literate" and "low income". In this three year ethnographic study, Rogers describes and explains the complexities of identity, power, and discursive practices that June and Vicky engage with in their daily life as they proficiently, critically, and strategically negotiate language and literacy in their home and community. Rogers explores why, despite their proficiencies, neighter June nor Vicky see themselves as literate, and how this and other contradictions prevent them from transforming their literate capital into social profit.