Disciplinarity: Functional Linguistic and Sociological Perspectives

Dr Karl Maton is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney, Australia. He is co-editor of Social Realism, Knowledge and the Sociology of Education (Continuum 2009). Frances Christie is Emeritus Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Melbourne, Australia and Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, Australia.

• 1. Why Disciplinarity? Frances Christie & Karl Maton; 2. Through others' eyes: the fate of disciplines Johan Muller; 3. Bridging troubled waters: interdisciplinarity and what makes it stick J.R. Martin; 4. Theories and things: the semantics of disciplinarity Karl Maton; 5. Making the break: disciplines and interdisciplinarity Rob Moore; 6. Writing discipline: comparing inscriptions of knowledge and knowers in academic writing Susan Hood; 7. Absenting discipline: constructivist approaches in online teaching Rainbow Tsai-Hung Chen, Karl Maton & Bennett; 8. Discipline and freedom in early childhood education Susan Feez; 9. Disciplinarity and school subject English Frances Christie & Macken-Horarik; 10. Supporting disciplinary learning through language analysis: developing historical literacy Mary Schleppegrell; 11. The semantic hyperspace: accumulating mathematical knowledge across semiotic resources and modes Kay O'Hallaran; 12. Social Studies Disciplinary Knowledge: Tensions between state curriculum and national assessment requirements Beryl Exley &Parlo Singh; Index.

'A timely and challenging text that brings together cutting edge thinking on disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity by leading social realist scholars and work on functional linguistics inspired by Halliday and Hasan.'