* Provides educational researchers with philosophical and theoretical frameworks as well as methodological practices for conducting discourse analysis of educational events
* Provides multiple cases to illustrate and model the use of philosophical and theoretical frameworks and methodological practices
* Provides ways for conceptualizing how discourse analysis of language and literacy in educational settings can contribute to the improvement of the everyday lives of educators through providing a new language with which to examine and re-fashion classroom life.
* Expands on a popular and cutting-edge book to bring it up to date for an international audience, with a more diverse and international array of examples
