Suchergebnisse

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Part I -- 1 Terman -- References -- 2 Humans -- The Human Brain -- The Associational Brain -- Other Brains -- Homeostasis -- Takeaways -- References -- 3 More Than Animals? -- Consciousness -- References -- 4 Human-Made Monsters -- A Mad Experiment: Monsters -- Environments Transform Humans -- Baboons and Status -- Montaigne -- References -- 5 Conclusion to Part I -- Part II -- 6 Fetishes -- From Harlow to Fetishes -- Fetishes Led to Human Thinking -- References -- 7 Examples of Fetishes -- Grades -- Money -- Membership -- References -- 8 Doubling Fetishes -- Shamans and Symbols -- References -- 9 The Imaginarium -- Bene and Me -- What I Would Be Thinking If It Were Me -- Bene and I Compared -- References -- 10 The Conscious Brain -- References -- 11 The Gang of Six -- The Ghost in the Machine -- References -- 12 Language -- The Deepest Fetishes About Language: Meaning Is "In the Head" -- The Deepest Fetishes About Language: Language Is a Picture of Reality -- Conclusion -- References -- 13 Stress and the State -- Stress -- Politics -- State-Based Ideology and Civics -- The State as Fetish -- The Mystery of Civil Obedience -- References -- 14 Another Attempt to Answer Our Question -- Normative Rationality: Thinking with Other People in Our Heads -- Normative Morality: Thinking with Culture in Our Head -- "Crowning Achievement" -- References -- 15 Conclusion to Part II -- References -- Part III -- 16 Messages from the Dead -- An Interlude on Poetry and Me -- Slow Language -- A Poem as a Message from the Past -- References -- 17 Embodied Meaning -- Specific Universals -- References -- 18 Specific Universals -- References -- 19 Morality -- References -- 20 The Examined Life -- Mundanity -- References -- 21 Conclusion to Part III -- Part IV -- 22 Plug-and-Play -- What Is Plugging and Playing? -- Morality -- Flourishing.

This bestselling textbook is the ideal companion to An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method, by leading author, James Paul Gee. Using a practical how-to approach, Gee provides the tools necessary to work with discourse analysis, with engaging step-by-step tasks featured throughout the book. Each tool is clearly explained, along with guidance on how to use it, and authentic data is provided for readers to practice using the tools. Readers from all fields will gain both a practical and theoretical background in how to do discourse analysis and knowledge of discourse analysis as

Introduction -- Video games and 21st century skills : why the sudden worldwide interest in video games and learning -- The nickel and dimed challenge : designing new forms of socially conscious play -- A young girl becomes a designer and goes global, succeeding at 21st century skills but not at school -- How passion grows : a retired shut in goes from making a purple potty to gaining millions of fans -- Passionate affinity groups : a new form of community that works to make people smarter -- A young girl and her vampire stories : how a teenager competes with a best selling author -- From the Sims to Second Life : a young woman transforms her real life -- What does it all mean : what women and the Sims have to teach us about what education and learning will look like in the 21st century