ABSTRACT
Orders of discourse-Orders of discourse is a heuristic that illustrates the relationship among texts, social practices, and identities. Orders of discourse include genre, discourse, and style and have equivalents in Systemic Functional Linguistics of mode, tenor, and field. Genre-Genres include the organizational properties of interactions. They include “ways of interacting” that reference the mode of communication (e.g., sermon, lecture, rap song). Discourse-Discourses are systematic clusters of themes that include contradictions. Discourses may be thought of as “ways of representing.” Use Gee’s distinction between d/Discourse (see chap. 11). Style-Style is the domain closest to identity or “ways of being” and includes aspects of grammar that signify how people are drawn into and compose social structures. Learning-Learning involves shifts in ways of interacting, representing, and being across time and over contexts. Alignment-Alignment is the consistency between ways of interacting, representing, and being either within or across contexts. Conflict-Conflict is a disjuncture between ways of interacting, representing, and being either within or across contexts.
