Connecting the dots: Mapping the field of discourse by reading across texts

1. Connecting the dots: Mapping the field of discourse by reading across texts The reading program and practices (Sue & Phil) Chris Connecting power in texts (John) Intertextual mappings (Phil & Sue) Seeing ghosts (Jenni) Weaving texts (Ann)

3. Reading group practices collaborative reading making visible our readings to others marking texts reading aloud drawing the discussion using metaphors word tracing

5. Reading the shape of the argument As a living, socio-ideological concrete thing, as heteroglot opinion, language, for the individual consciousness, lies on the borderline between oneself and another. (Bakhtin 1981, p.293)

6. Reading aloud (1) In any given historical moment of verbal-ideological life, each generation at each social level has its own language; moreover, every age group has as a matter of fact its own language, its own vocabulary, its own particular accentual system that, in their turn, vary depending on the social level, academic institution (the language of the cadet, the high school student, the trade school student are all different languages) and other stratifying factors. Bakhtin 1981, Discourse in the Novel p.290

7. Reading the quotation marks

9. Some metaphors for intertextuality Mapping Layers Ghosts Echoes Weaving Net(works) Rays Collage

10. Intertextual mappings

14. The geography of discourse

15. Time and Space

20. One tries in this way to discover how the recurrent elements of statements can reappear dissociate recompose gain in extension or determination, be taken up by new logical structures, acquire, on the other hand, new semantic contents