Competing discourses in the classroom: A post-structuralist discourse analysis of girls' and boys' speech in public contexts

Discourse and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 827-842

  Baxter, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competing discourses; Conversation Analysis; Critical Discourse Analysis; Gender; Post structuralist Discourse Analysis; Speech in public contexts; Subject positions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036402684     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926502013006760     Document Type: Review

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