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David C. S. Li (ed.), Discourses in search of members: In honor of Ron Scollon. Baltimore: University Press of America, 2001. Pp. xv, 640. Hb $75.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2004

Hailong Tian
Hailong Tian
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Tianjin University of Commerce, Tianjin 300134, PR China, thailong@public1.tpt.tj.cn
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Discourses in search of members is a festschrift presented to Ron Scollon on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday in May 1999. The volume is so titled, writes Li, in order to “reflect and unify all of Ron's research endeavors to date, namely, the dynamic, dialectical relationship between, on the one hand, how members of a myriad of overlapping Discourses (to follow James Gee's convention) acquire legitimacy of their memberships, consciously or otherwise, and on the other hand, how such Discourses maintain their vitality and viability through self-perpetuating social practices of their members from day to day” (p. ix). The editor has reached his goal, compiling 25 contributions that address a number of related topics in four core sections: educational discourses, critical and media studies, intercultural/interdiscourse communication, and language learning and comparative poetics.

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BOOK REVIEW
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Language in Society , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 293 - 296
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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