This collection of cutting-edge work by internationally acclaimed scholars brings together the complementary approaches of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), focusing on how academic discourse organises disciplinary knowledge and the means through which we can teach this in classrooms.
J. R. Martin is a world-leading authority in systemic functional linguistics.
Karl Maton is the creator and architect of Legitimation Code Theory.
Y. J. Doran is a leading young scholar combining both frameworks in research.
All three are members of the LCT Centre for Knowledge-Building.
List of Contributors
Chapter 1. Academic Discourse: An Inter-Disciplinary Dialogue
J.R. Martin, Karl Maton and Y. J. Doran
Part I: Legitimation Code Theory: Opening Ideas
Chapter 2. Specialization Codes: Knowledge, Knowers and Student Success
Karl Maton and Rainbow Tsai-Hung Chen
Chapter 3. Semantic Waves: Context, Complexity and Academic Discourse
Karl Maton
Part II: Systemic Functional Linguistics: Responses to LCT
Chapter 4. Revisiting Mode: Context In/Dependency in Ancient History Classroom Discourse
J. R. Martin and Erika Margulis
Chapter 5. Revisiting Field: Specialised Knowledge in Secondary School Science and Humanities Discourse
J. R. Martin
Part III: Bringing SFL and LCT Together to Explore Knowers and Values
Chapter 6. Seeing Values: Axiology and Implicit Evaluation in Australia's 'Invasion'
Y. J. Doran
Chapter 7. Historical Events and Processes in The Discourse of Disciplinary History and Classroom Interaction
Teresa Oteíza
Part IV: Academic Discourse in the Classroom
Chapter 8. Live Lectures: The Significance of Presence in Building Disciplinary Knowledge
Susan Hood
Chapter 9. Building A Pedagogic Metalanguage I: Curriculum Genres
David Rose
Chapter 10. Building A Pedagogic Metalanguage II: Knowledge Genres
David Rose
Index