James Paul Gee
Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies
"Basic Information Structure” and “Academic Language”: An Approach to Discourse Analysis
Language from a Cognitive Perspective: Grammar, Usage, and Processing
Publication year: 2011
This paper has two purposes. One purpose is to introduce a tool for analyzing some aspects of discourse. This tool is based on what I will call \Basic Information Structure” (\BIS” for short).1 The second purpose is to apply this tool to a specific example so that I can speak to an issue I wish to address.