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',
some of which operate in turn as part of larger unities of work
called 'curriculum macrogenres'. Drawing on Bernstein's work,
Christie argues that two registers operate in pedagogic discourse:
a regulative register, to do with the goals and directions of the
discourse; and an instructional register, to do with the particular
'content' or knowledge at issue. Each can be shown to be realized
in distinctive clusters of choices in the grammar. The operation of
the regulative register determines the initiation, pacing,
sequencing and evaluation of the overall pedagogic activity. The
book sets out the its methodology in detail by reference to a
number of classroom texts, and a range of school subjects. Overall,
schools emerge as sites of symbolic control in a culture.
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