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Denise Ives, associate professor in the children, families and schools program of the College of Education, has co-authored “Discourse Analysis of Language, Literacy, Culture, and Teaching: Concepts, Theories, and Methods in Action,” a new book published by global academic publisher Routledge.

The book demonstrates to educators the possibilities of using discourse analysis to better understand language, literacy, culture and teaching. Each chapter takes a narrative-based approach to describe processes involved in analyses, including: identifying aims; formulating questions; selecting discourse; transcribing oral and multimodal discourse; translating discourse; chunking discourse; choosing and applying discourse and other theory; generating and supporting claims; and communicating findings.

Ives collaborated with 11 contributing scholars in creating the content for the book, including College of Education faculty members Ysaaca Axelrod and Cara Crandall and alumna Marsha Jing-Ji Liaw. Additional contributors are affiliated with programs across UMass Amherst, including sports management doctoral candidate Blaine Huber and marketing doctoral candidate Kyungin Ryu.

The book is part of the “Language, Culture, and Teaching” series, created by UMass Amherst Professor Emerita Sonia Nieto and currently edited by UMass professor of education Laura Valdiviezo.

For more information about the book or to purchase copies, visit the Routledge website.