Theorizing Border-Crossing Discourses

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Fourteen
  In Roundtable Session: Student Immigrant Educational Dilemmas: Various Perceptions (Table 15)

Abstract

A seminal theoretical concept of “big-D-Discourses” is one of the ideal ways of understanding and interpreting literacy practices, human identities and behaviors within sociocultural contexts (Gee, 1990/2015). This theoretical study attempts to develop the conventional theoretical concepts of the big-D-Discourse, which were developed more than two decades ago, in response to the shift to an increasingly digitalizing and globalizing literacy environment. To do that, this study explores discourses in global online affinity spaces and compare the discourses with conventionally analyzed discourses in a local context, and investigate how the conventional theoretical work of the big-D-Discourse can be expanded and developed in response.

Author

• Kewman M. Lee, Missouri State University
  Presenting Author