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From: Margith Strand To: ygayol@fielding.eduCc: jedwards@fielding.eduSubject: Discourse Analysis; Semiotic Theory in Distance Education/Margith Strand/ January 14, 2009Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:27:42 -0500
To: Yolanda

Good Morning! I wanted to send you a list of the pathway for the discussion and relevant information in the area of Discourse Analysis which I feel will benefit me in the writing of the Dissertation.

The supporting sections of the Discourse Analysis is as follows:

Register Theory
Genre Theory
Intertexuality
Text Semantics
Discursive formation
Cohesion Analysis
Attitudinal-Evaluative meaning
Conversation analysis (peformed within the context of the Distance Education platform)
Narrative analysis (performed within the context of the Discussion and Online learning platform)
Theme-Rheme analysis

I find that the area of General Semiotics where "semiotics is the theory of the production and interpretation of meaning,"
can possibly be the basis for the progression in the structure and elucidation of my general approach for the working function of the Dissertation. I have found the general information from the works of J. Lemke. I am not aware, just yet, if this approach in connection to Distance Education has yet been performed, but I feel that it might be a natural fit to guide me.

It has been mentioned in a brief article by J. Lemke (http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/education/jlemke/theories.htm)
that "Social semiotics therefore makes no radical separation between theoretical and applied semiotics and is more closely associated with discourse analysis, multimedia analysis, educational research, cultural anthropology, political sociology, etc." I find that this statement is intriguing in that I find that the list to be rather comprehensive and related to the field of Distance Education, overall in that the sections do relate to the venues utilized in the area of Distance Learning and Teaching.

I would like to know the required sections of the Concept Paper. I have written the Proposal before for the Grounded Theory area, and am aware of the sections for that particular need.

Thank you, as always.

Margith A. Strand