by James Paul Gee (Author)

In this accessible introductory volume, acclaimed scholar James Paul Gee tells the story of how literacy-starting in the early 1980s-came to be seen not as a mental phenomenon, but as a social and cultural one.

Author Biography

James Paul Gee is Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University, USA. He is author of a number of books, including An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, fourth edition, Language and Learning in the Digital Age and is co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis.