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Selected Recent Works -- Jay L. Lemke

Textual Politics: Discourse and Social Dynamics. London: Taylor & Francis. 1995.

Aprender a Hablar Ciencia, 1997. Barcelona: Paidos. [Spanish-language edition of Talking Science]

Recent Major Papers:

“Discursive technologies and the social organization of meaning.” Folia Linguistica 35 (1-2): 79 -96. [Special issue: "Critical Discourse Analysis and Cognition", R. Wodak, issue editor]. 2002.

“Becoming the Village: Education across Lives” In G. Wells and G. Claxton, Eds. Learning for Life in the 21st  Century: Sociocultural Perspectives on The Future of Education. London: Blackwell. pp. 34-45. 2002.

"Multimedia Genres for Scientific Education and Science Literacy." In M. J. Schleppegrell & C. Colombi, Eds., Developing Advanced Literacy in First and Second Languages. Erlbaum. pp.21-44. 2002. HTML.

"Ensenar todos los lenguages de la ciencia: palabras, simbolos, imagenes, y acciones." In M. Benlloch (ed.), La educacion en ciencias. Barcelona: Paidos. pp. 159-186. 2002.

"Articulating Communities: Sociocultural Perspectives on Science Education." Journal of Research on Science Teaching 38 (3): 296-316. 2001.

Lemke, J.L. 2001. Discursive technologies and the social organization of meaning. Folia Linguistica 35 (1-2) 79-96. [Special issue: "Critical Discourse Analysis and Cognition", R. Wodak, issue editor]  

"Across the Scales of Time: Artifacts, Activities, and Meanings in Ecosocial SystemsMind, Culture, and Activity 7 (4): 273-290. 2000.  

"Opening Up Closure: Semiotics Across Scales." In J. Chandler and G. van de Vijver, Eds. Closure: Emergent Organizations and their Dynamics (Volume 901: Annals of the NYAS). New York: New York Academy of Science Press. pp. 100-111. March, 2000.

"Material Sign Processes and Ecosocial Organization." In P.B. Andersen, C. Emmeche, and N.O. Finnemann-Nielsen, Eds. Downward Causation: Self-organization in Biology, Psychology, and Society. Aarhus University Press (Denmark). pp. 181-213. 2000.

"Across the Scales of Time: Artifacts, Activities, and Meanings in Ecosocial SystemsMind, Culture, and Activity 7 (4): 273-290. 2000.  

"Typological and Topological Meaning in Diagnostic Discourse." Discourse Processes 27(2), 173-185. 1999. Manuscript.

"Resources for Attitudinal Meaning: Evaluative Orientations in Text Semantics." Functions of Language 5(1): 33-56, 1998.

"Multiplying Meaning: Visual and Verbal Semiotics in Scientific Text" in J. R. Martin & R. Veel, Eds., Reading Science. London: Routledge. 1998. (pp.87-113). Manuscript.

"Analysing Verbal Data: Principles, Methods, and Problems" in K. Tobin & B. Fraser, (Eds). International Handbook of Science Education. London: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 1175-1189. 1998. Manuscript.

"Metamedia Literacy: Transforming Meanings And Media" In D. Reinking, L. Labbo, M. McKenna, & R. Kiefer (Eds.), Handbook of Literacy and Technology: Transformations in a Post-Typographic World. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. pp.283-301. 1998. Manuscript

"Cognition, Context, and Learning: A Social Semiotic Perspective" in D. Kirshner and A. Whitson, Eds., Situated Cognition: Social, Semiotic, and Psychological Perspectives. (pp. 37-55). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. 1997. HTML Text.

See also Recent Additions for pre-publication papers