J P Gee
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 28727 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J P Gee |
| NOMBRES | J P |
| APELLIDO | Gee |
| FIRMA | GEE J P |
| AFILIACIONES | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4653-5313 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 594 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1933 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Discourse versus Discourse
Discourse analysis is the study of language in use (Fairclough, 1992; Gee, 1999). When we use language to communicate we must signal to our listeners who we are (in the sense of what socially meaningful identity or role we are speaking out of) and what we are doing (what action or activity we are attempting to carry out). People talk and act not just as individuals, but as members of various sorts of social and cultural groups associated with dif…
Remembering Courtney Cazden, 1925–2025
Here we remember and honor Courtney B. Cazden (1925–2025), whose scholarship, mentorship, and moral clarity profoundly shaped the study of language, literacy, and learning. Drawing on our shared experiences as colleagues, collaborators, students, and friends, we reflect on Courtney's enduring contributions to classroom discourse analysis, bilingual and Indigenous education, sociocultural theories of learning, and the pedagogy of multiliteracies. …
Reflections on Cope and Kalantzis
This was an invited paper meant to accompany a paper by Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis
Response to ‘Postdigital Videogames Literacies
Bookshelf
In this regular column, Kappan authors recommend books that have influenced their thinking about education. In this issue, James Paul Gee recommends The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation by Jacques Rancière, and Ayesha Hashim recommends Suddenly Diverse: How School Districts Manage Race and Inequality by Erica O. Turner
Cybersapien literacy
The landscape of writing is evolving in the era of generative AI. James Paul Gee introduces the concept of “cybersapien writing literacy,” which emphasizes a synergistic partnership between humans and AI. He outlines four essential types of writing and discusses their potential benefits for personal growth, critical thinking, and societal engagement. Integrative writing combines these writing types to foster what Gee calls “expansive cognition.” …
Slogans with Chinese characteristics
This article investigates a distinctive linguistic device – slogans – in the discursive ecology of the history, culture and politics of China. We are interested in how a given language device, one that might seem trivial, can carry out different distinctive and important functions in particular cases. Slogans in China are an important way to carry out a function that all states must engage with: to encourage and teach people to see themselves as …
Designing for deep learning in the context of digital and social media
There is today a great deal of controversy over digital and social media. Even leaders in the tech industry are beginning to decry the time young people spend on smartphones and social networks. Recently, the World Health Organization proposed adding “gaming disorder” to its official list of diseases, defining it as a pattern of gaming behavior so severe that it takes “precedence over other life interests”. At the same time, many others have cele…
Identity and diversity in today’s world
This paper develops a thesis about identity and diversity. I first look at activity-based identities, identities like being a gardener, birder, citizen scientist or fan-fiction writer. These are freely chosen identities and they are proliferating at a great rate today thanks to participatory culture, the Maker Movement and digital and social media. Next, I turn to relational identities, identities like being Asian-American, elderly, ADHD or Catho…
Discourse analysis matters
A great deal of discourse analysis is deeply imbued with Western perspectives on language, communication, politics, and society. One solution to this problem is to expose these perspectives and develop, across different cultures, culturally distinct forms of discourse analysis. In this paper I want to claim that it is also possible to think of discourse analysis in a way that crosses cultures and, in a sense, stays ‘neutral’ politically. The appr…
Discourse and “the New Literacy Studies”
Reflections on understanding, alignment, the social mind, and language in interaction
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This Issue
An Introduction to Discourse Analysis
Discourse analysis considers how language, both spoken and written, enacts social and cultural perspectives and identities. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis examines the field and presents James Paul Gee’s unique integrated approach which incorporates both a theory of language-in-use and a method of research. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis can be used as a stand-alone textbook or ideally use…
How to do Discourse Analysis
This bestselling textbook is the ideal companion to An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method, by leading author, James Paul Gee. Using a practical how-to approach, Gee provides the tools necessary to work with discourse analysis, with engaging step-by-step tasks featured throughout the book. Each tool is clearly explained, along with guidance on how to use it, and authentic data is provided for readers to practice using the tools.…
Decontextualized Language
Why do children from some minority groups and children living in poverty do poorly in school when compared to white middle-class children? Researchers have offered a large number of different answers to this question. One of the most popular answers has been based on the notion of “decontextualized language.” This article argues that this widely influential answer is wrong and misleading, because it is based on a poor theory of how human language…
Unified Discourse Analysis
Discourse Analysis is becoming increasingly "multimodal", concerned primarily with the interplay of language, image and sound. Video Games allow humans to create, live in and have conversations with new multimodal worlds. In this ground-breaking new textbook, best-selling author and experienced gamer, James Paul Gee, sets out a new theory and method of discourse analysis which applies to language, the real world, science and video games. Rather t…
Semantic Perspicuity and the Locative Hypothesis
Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1982)
The Routledge handbook of discourse analysis
The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis covers the major approaches to Discourse Analysis from Critical Discourse Analysis to Multimodal Discourse Analysis and their applications in key educational and institutional settings. The handbook is divided into six sections: Approaches to Discourse Analysis, Approaches to Spoken Discourse, Genres and Practices, Educational Applications, Institutional Applications, and Identity, Culture and Discours…
Language and Learning in the Digital Age
In Language and Learning in the Digital Age, linguist James Paul Gee and educator Elisabeth Hayes deal with the forces unleashed by today’s digital media, forces that are transforming language and learning for good and ill. They argue that the role of oral language is almost always entirely misunderstood in debates about digital media. Like the earlier inventions of writing and print, digital media actually power up or enhance the powers of oral …
Stories, probes, and games
This paper is a reflection on the potential of narrative video games for human sense making and perspective taking. Such games are considered in the context of storytelling and reflective action as the two core foundations of human sense making. I propose that narrative video games allow a form of player storytelling at the intersection of the game’s grand narrative and reflective action in a virtual world. I further propose that such games have …
How to do Discourse Analysis
How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit is the essential new book from James Paul Gee, bestselling author of An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method. Discourse analysis is widely used in a range of academic subjects, all concerned with how humans make meaning and communicate within and across different social and cultural groups. Using a practical how-to approach, Gee provides the tools necessary to work with discourse analysis, …
Women and Gaming
The authors argue that women gamers, too often ignored as gamers, are in many respects leading the way in this trend towards design, cultural production, new learning communities, and the combination
New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and "Worked Examples" as One Way Forward
A proposal to move the academic area of digital media and learning toward more coherence. In this report, noted scholar James Paul Gee discusses the evolution of digital media and learning (DMAL) from its infancy as an “academic area” into a more organized field or coherent discipline. Distinguishing among academic areas, fields, disciplinary specializations, and thematic disciplines, Gee describes other academic areas that have fallen into these…
Games, Learning, and 21st Century Survival Skills
Digital games hold out great potential for human development. There is no reason to think about games simply as “fun”. At the same time, there is no reason to equate learning with being “serious”. Games and learning, at their best, engage humans at a deep level of pleasure (Gee 2005). Play and learning are primordial human urges. Unfortunately we have come to take it for granted that adulthood will kill play and schools will kill learning as a hu…
Chapter 3
n today's fast changing and interconnected global world, researchers in a variety of areas have come to see identity as an important analytic tool for understanding schools and society. A focus on the contextually specific ways in which people act out and recognize identities allows a more dynamic approach than the sometimes overly general and static trio of race, class, and gender. However, the term identity has taken on a great many different m…
Identity as an Analytic Lens for Research in Education
Video Games and the Future of Learning
Will video games change the way we learn? We argue here for a particular view of games-and of learning-as activities that are most powerful when they are personally meaningful, experiential, social, and epistemological all at the same time. From this perspective, we describe an approach to the design of learning environments that builds on the educational properties of games, but deeply grounds them within a theory of learning appropriate for an …
Units in the production of narrative discourse
(1986). Units in the production of narrative discourse. Discourse Processes: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 391-422
Orality and Literacy
Two styles of narrative construction and their linguistic and educational implications
The research on which this paper is based was done in collaboration with a project at the Harvard University School of Education directed by Courtney Cazden and Sarah Michaels. The stories by the young black girl discussed in this paper were collected by Charles Haynes from Harvard University as part of the project. The story by the young white girl was collected by Dennie Wolf of Project Zero at Harvard as part of her own research. All of the ab…
Video Games and Embodiment
In this article, the author discusses one way in which modern video games can illuminate the nature of human thinking and problem solving as situated and embodied. The author first discusses why, over the last several years, many people have become interested in video games as a site to study human thinking, problem solving, and learning. The author then discusses what he call the "projective stance," a type of embodied thinking characteristic of…
The New Work Order
Meaning making, communities of practice, and analytical toolkits
Slogans with Chinese characteristics
This article investigates a distinctive linguistic device – slogans – in the discursive ecology of the history, culture and politics of China. We are interested in how a given language device, one that might seem trivial, can carry out different distinctive and important functions in particular cases. Slogans in China are an important way to carry out a function that all states must engage with: to encourage and teach people to see themselves as …
Why Game Studies Now? Video Games
Video games are a new art form, and this, the author argues, is one good reason why now is the right time for game studies. As a new art form, one largely immune to traditional tools developed for the analysis of literature and film, video games will challenge researchers to develop new analytical tools and will become a new type of "equipment for living," to use Kenneth Burke's phrase for the role of literature. This article discusses several of…
Designing for deep learning in the context of digital and social media
There is today a great deal of controversy over digital and social media. Even leaders in the tech industry are beginning to decry the time young people spend on smartphones and social networks. Recently, the World Health Organization proposed adding “gaming disorder” to its official list of diseases, defining it as a pattern of gaming behavior so severe that it takes “precedence over other life interests”. At the same time, many others have cele…
Stories, probes, and games
This paper is a reflection on the potential of narrative video games for human sense making and perspective taking. Such games are considered in the context of storytelling and reflective action as the two core foundations of human sense making. I propose that narrative video games allow a form of player storytelling at the intersection of the game’s grand narrative and reflective action in a virtual world. I further propose that such games have …
Discourse analysis matters
A great deal of discourse analysis is deeply imbued with Western perspectives on language, communication, politics, and society. One solution to this problem is to expose these perspectives and develop, across different cultures, culturally distinct forms of discourse analysis. In this paper I want to claim that it is also possible to think of discourse analysis in a way that crosses cultures and, in a sense, stays ‘neutral’ politically. The appr…
Mind and Society
This paper extends Derek Edwards’ (1999) assertion that accounts of emotions are constructed using a repertoire of linguistic forms in specific contexts for specific goals and interests. The notion of situated meanings offers a fruitful way of conceptualizing linkages between mind and meaning construction, on the one hand, and social practices that organize them, on the other. Situated meanings are context-responsive assemblies constructed on-lin…
Dracula, the Vampire Lestat, and Tesol
Knowing a language involves three aspects: grammar and words, perspective taking (through the use of rhythm and intonation), and the manipulation of socially significant variation in the language to demarcate various socioculturally defined identities. Work in linguistics, until fairly recently, has overstressed the first of these, to the detriment of the latter two, which are often weakest in the case of second language acquisition. This article…
A proposed social policy for secondary education
Adjective Preposing and There Insertion
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Performance structures
A special invited issue
The Narrativization of Experience in the Oral Style
While acknowledging that the distinction between oral and literate styles of communication is not in reality a dichotomy, but a continuum of styles, this paper focuses on the oral style. Many children, often from middle-class mainstream homes, bring to school the foundations of literate styles of speech even before they can write. Other children, often minority children, do not. This paper gives a detailed linguistic-stylistic analysis of a seven…
The Structure of Perception in the Poetry of William Carlos Williams
Perception played a key role in the aesthetics of William Carlos Williams. But, of course, the idea that art ought to concentrate on the authentic rendering of the object in all its immediacy and particularity goes well beyond Williams and, indeed, well beyond poetry as an art form. The authentic rendering of the perceived object is one of the wellsprings of art, and has played a central role in many critical theories. Let me take one instructive…
Units in the production of narrative discourse
(1986). Units in the production of narrative discourse. Discourse Processes: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 391-422
Orality and Literacy
Dracula, the Vampire Lestat, and Tesol
Knowing a language involves three aspects: grammar and words, perspective taking (through the use of rhythm and intonation), and the manipulation of socially significant variation in the language to demarcate various socioculturally defined identities. Work in linguistics, until fairly recently, has overstressed the first of these, to the detriment of the latter two, which are often weakest in the case of second language acquisition. This article…
Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics
Two styles of narrative construction and their linguistic and educational implications
The research on which this paper is based was done in collaboration with a project at the Harvard University School of Education directed by Courtney Cazden and Sarah Michaels. The stories by the young black girl discussed in this paper were collected by Charles Haynes from Harvard University as part of the project. The story by the young white girl was collected by Dennie Wolf of Project Zero at Harvard as part of her own research. All of the ab…
A Linguistic Approach to Narrative
This article develops, through an analysis of a single example, a linguistic ap-proach to narrative. I argue that the discourse structure of a text functions to set up a series of interpretive questions, questions that must be answered by any acceptable interpretation, but that also constrain what count as acceptable inter-pretations. I argue that the text I use as an example, a narrative from a woman in her 20s suffering from schizophrenia, is a…
The New Work Order
On Mobots and Classrooms
Owing to social and technological changes, we are witnessing the beginnings of a global, hyper-competitive `new capitalism' reorganizing economic and social relationships within and between businesses. This article argues that the themes and images of the new capitalism are part of a much larger `thematic convergence' in which quite disparate things—like minds, molecules, media, ecosystems and organizations—are being talked about in new and simil…
Literacy, Emotion, and Authority
Thematized Echoes
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Thematized Echoes
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Chapter 4
Mind and Society
This paper extends Derek Edwards’ (1999) assertion that accounts of emotions are constructed using a repertoire of linguistic forms in specific contexts for specific goals and interests. The notion of situated meanings offers a fruitful way of conceptualizing linkages between mind and meaning construction, on the one hand, and social practices that organize them, on the other. Situated meanings are context-responsive assemblies constructed on-lin…
The Future of the Social Turn
The Future of the Social Turn
Chapter 3
n today's fast changing and interconnected global world, researchers in a variety of areas have come to see identity as an important analytic tool for understanding schools and society. A focus on the contextually specific ways in which people act out and recognize identities allows a more dynamic approach than the sometimes overly general and static trio of race, class, and gender. However, the term identity has taken on a great many different m…
Identity as an Analytic Lens for Research in Education
Reading as Situated Language
My main goal here is to situate reading within a broad perspective that integrates work on cognition, language, social interaction, society, and culture. In light of recent reports on reading (National Reading Panel, 2000; Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998) that have tended to treat reading quite narrowly in terms of psycholinguistic processing skills, I argue that such a broad perspective on reading is essential if we are to speak to issues of access…
Institutional Ethnography
Sociology (35 obras) · Psychology (31 obras) · Linguistics (29 obras) · Computer Science (24 obras) · Philosophy (21 obras) · Epistemology (15 obras) · Pedagogy (12 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Digital Games and Media (11 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (11 obras)