GSE Publications
Title
Review of Ron Scollon and Suzie Wong Scollon, Nexus Analysis: Discourse and the Emerging Internet
Document Type
Review
Date of this Version
February 2006
Abstract
This ambitious and rewarding book combines aspects of several genres. It is a methodological guidebook, offering strategies for doing ethnography, discourse analysis and action research. It is an empirical report, describing the authors' use of email and other resources to improve Native Alaskans' access to higher education from 1978-1983. It is a theoretical account of how "people, places, discourses and objects" come together to facilitate action and social change. It also offers a theoretical sketch and empirical illustration of computer mediated communication. The book does not provide a full methodological, empirical or theoretical account, but focuses instead on the nexus of these components. The theory of social action undergirds the methodological suggestions, and the empirical material illustrates both the theory and the methodology.
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Date Posted: 15 March 2007
Comments
Postprint version. Published in Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 10, Issue 1, February 2006, pages 127-131.
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-6441.2006.00321b.x