Dissertation: "Proton-Antiproton Scattering Near Threshold"
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2002 - Professor, School of Education, Department of Educational Studies
City University of New York
Graduate School and University Center
- 2000 - 2002 Executive Officer, Ph.D. Program in Urban Education
- 2001 - 2002 Doctoral faculty in Developmental Psychology
Brooklyn College, School of Education
- 1986-2002 Professor of Education
- 1980-1985 Associate Professor
- 1972-1979 Assistant Professor
Research in functional and applied linguistics, text semantics, discourse analysis, multimedia semiotics, language in education, science education, scientific communication, complex systems theory, social theory.
University of Chicago
Enrico Fermi Institute for Nuclear Studies
- 1970-1972 Research Assistant to the Director
- 1966-1970 National Science Foundation Fellow
Research in elementary particle theory and high-energy physics
Multimedia and Literacies: Digital games and the design of interactive and immersive learning environments; critical literacy and new educational technologies; specialized registers and multimedia genres of academic disciplines; language, dialect, and cultural diversity; classroom discourse
Discourse
Linguistics: Semantic structures and strategies in text; thematic analysis of
discourse formations; orientational and attitudinal meaning; intertextuality and
heteroglossia; hypertext semantics; scientific and technical discourse
Social Semiotics: Multimedia semiotics; functional integration of visual and verbal meaning; discourse, culture, and identity; dynamics of ecosocial systems and networks
Science Education: The role of language and semantic competence in
mastering science; multimedia literacy for science education; classroom discourse and activity structures; multimedia genres
of science; science education and social values; science and masculinism
Grant Proposal Reviewer: National Science Foundation (USA), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), Economics and Social Research Council (UK), Australian Research Council
Manuscript Reviewer: Communication Review; Mind, Culture, and Activity; Human Development; Cognition & Instruction; Anthropology & Education; Reading Research Quarterly; Science Education; International Journal of Science Education; Visual Communication; Cambridge University Press; Routledge; Taylor & Francis; Cassell Academic; Continuum; SUNY Press; Heinemann Educational
Conference Program Reviewer: American Educational Research Association; National Reading Conference (USA); National Association for Research in Science Teaching; Conference on Computer-supported Collaborative Work
External Examiner, Doctoral Dissertations: York University (Canada), Linguistics; University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education; Victoria University (Canada); University of Sydney, Linguistics; Macquarie University, Applied Linguistics; Murdoch University: Communication Studies, Education, Humanities; Curtin University of Technology, Science Education
External Reviewer, Faculty Appointments Promotions and
Honors: University of California, Berkeley; University of
California, San Diego; Washington University, St. Louis;
Vanderbilt University; University of Pennsylvania; University of
Delaware; York University (Toronto)
Textual Politics: Discourse and Social Dynamics. London: Taylor & Francis. 1995.
Talking Science: Language, Learning, and Values. Ablex Publishing. 1990.
Aprender a hablar ciencia: Lenguaje, aprendizaje, y valores. Ediciones Paidos (Barcelona). 1997. [Translation of Lemke 1990 into Spanish]
Using Language in the Classroom. 2nd edition. London: Oxford University Press, 1989. [Republication of Lemke 1985]
Using Language in the Classroom. Geelong, VIC (Australia): Deakin University Press. 1985.
Semiotics and Education. Monograph in Toronto Semiotic Circle Monographs Series, Victoria University, Toronto. 1984.
"Vector-Meson Interference Phenomena" [with R. Sachs] Physical Review D5: 590-597. 1972.
"Proton-Antiproton Scattering Near Threshold" Il Nuovo Cimento 16A: 473-510. 1973.
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"Acceptance of Plate Tectonics by Geologists" [with M. Nitecki, H. Pullman]. Geology 6: 661-664. 1978. [See also Geology 7: 163-164. 1979]
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"Talking physics." Physics Education (London) 17: 263-267. 1982.
"Thematic Analysis: Systems, Structures, and Strategies" Semiotic Inquiry 3(2): 159-187. 1983.
Classroom Communication of Science. Final Report to the U.S. National Science Foundation. Arlington, VA: ERIC Documents Service (ED 222 346). 1983.
"Analyzing Meanings in Interaction" International Journal of the Sociology of Language 43: 119-127. 1983.
"A Critique of Relativity and Localization" [with E. Gendlin]. International Journal of Mathematical Modelling 4: 61-72. 1983.
"Textual Politics: Heteroglossia and Discourse Analysis" Paper presented at the International Summer Institute of Structural and Semiotic Studies, University of Toronto, June 1984.
"Ideology, intertextuality, and the notion of register" In J.D. Benson and W.S. Greaves, Eds., Systemic Perspectives on Discourse. (pp. 275-294) Ablex, 1985.
"Strategic Deployment of Speech and Action: A Sociosemiotic Analysis" In J.Evans and J.Deely, Eds., Semiotics 1983: Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America `Snowbird' Conference, (pp.67-79). University Press of America (1987).
"Social semiotics and science education" American Journal of Semiotics: 5(2): 217-232. [ Special issue; Donald Cunningham and Gary Shank, Eds.] 1987.
"Discourses in conflict: Heteroglossia and text semantics." In J. D. Benson and W. S. Greaves, Eds. Functional Perspectives on Discourse, (pp. 29-50). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing. 1988.
"Genres, semantics, and classroom education" Linguistics and Education: 1(1): 81-99. 1988.
"Towards a Social Semiotics of the Material Subject" T. Threadgold, Ed. Working Papers, Volume 2: Sociosemiotics, (pp. 1-17). Sydney: Sydney Association for Studies in Society and Culture. 1988.
"Text structure and text semantics" In R. Veltman and E. Steiner, Eds. Discourse and Text: Explorations in Systemic Semantics. London: Pinter. 1988.
"Social semiotics: A new model for literacy education" In D. Bloome, Ed. Classrooms and Literacy, (pp. 289-309). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing. 1989.
"The language of science teaching" In C. Emihovich, Ed. Locating Learning: Ethnographic Perspectives on Classroom Research (pp. 216-239). Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing. 1989.
"Making Text Talk." Theory into Practice 28(2): 136-141. Spring, 1989. [Special issue: Learning through text, Joanne Golden, Ed.]
"Semantics and Social Values." WORD 40(1-2): 37-50. 1989. [Special issue: Systems, structures, and discourse]
"Technical Discourse and Technocratic Ideology." In M. A. K. Halliday, John Gibbons, and Howard Nicholas, Eds. Learning, Keeping, and Using Language: Selected Papers from the 8th AILA World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney 1987. Vol. II. pp. 435-460. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1990.
"Language Diversity and Literacy Education." Australian Journal of Reading 13(4): 320-325. (Focus issue Perspectives on Literacy for the International Literacy Year). 1990.
"Literacy and Diversity." In Rod Giblett and John O'Carroll, Eds. Discipline, Dialogue, Difference. Murdoch University (Australia): Duration Publications. pp.147-169. 1990.
"Text Production and Dynamic Text Semantics." In E. Ventola, Ed. Functional and Systemic Linguistics: Approaches and Uses. [pp. 23-38]. Berlin: Mouton/deGruyter (Trends in Linguistics: Studies and Monographs 55). 1991.
"Interpersonal Meaning in Discourse: Value Orientations." In M. Davies and L. Ravelli, Eds. [Selected Papers in Systemic Linguistics]. [pp.82-104]. London: Pinter. 1992.
"Personal Narrative and Academic Discourse: Tools for Making Meaning." Liberal Education 78(3): 28-33. 1992.
"On Not Making Literate Americans" Education Australia, No.19-20, p18-19. 1992.
"Education, Cyberspace, and Change." Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture, Vol.1, No.1; March 1993. http://www.kovacs.com/EJVC/lemke.htm ; http://dli.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/aejvc/aejvc-v1n01-lemke-education.txt
"Intertextuality and Educational Research." Linguistics and Education 4(3/4):257-268, 1993.
"Practice, Politique, Postmodernism." A review of Pierre Bourdieu and Lois J.D. Wacquant, _An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology_. Postmodern Culture, Vol.4, No.1 (September, 1993). http://hegel.lib.ncsu.edu/stacks/serials/pmc/pmc-v4n1-lemke-practice.txt
"Critical Social Literacy for the New Century." English in Australia 105: 9-15. 1993. (Special issue, Teaching English Literacy, F. Christie, Ed.)
"Discourse, Dynamics, and Social Change." Cultural Dynamics 6(1): 243-275. [Special issue, Language as Cultural Dynamic, M.A.K. Halliday, Issue Editor]. 1993.
"The Coming Paradigm Wars in Education: Curriculum vs.
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"The Missing Context in Science Education: Science." Paper presented at American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Atlanta, GA (April 1992). Arlington VA: ERIC Documents Service (ED 363 511), 1994.
"Multiplying Meaning: Literacy in a Multimedia World." Paper presented at the National Reading Conference, Charleston SC (December 1993). Arlington VA: ERIC Documents Service (ED 365 940), 1994.
"Living Literacy in the Information Age" in Shortland-Jones, B., Bosich, B., & Rivalland, J. (Eds.), Living Literacy. Carlton, Vic.: Australian Reading Assocation. 1994.
"Semiotics and the Deconstruction of Conceptual Learning." Journal of Accelerative Learning and Teaching 19 (1), 67-110. 1994.
"Intertextuality and text semantics." In M. Gregory and P. Fries, Eds. Discourse in Society: Functional Perspectives Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing. 1995. [pp.85-114]
"Literacy, Culture, and History." Review of The World on Paper by D.R. Olson. The Communication Review 1(2):241-259. 1995.
"Making Towers, Making Withs" Paper presented at National Association for Research in Science Teaching, San Francisco, April 1995. Arlington VA: ERIC Documents Service (ED 384 513), 1995. [Available in Electronic Journal of Science Education: M. Kamen, W.-M. Roth, L. Flick, B.Shapiro, L. Barden, E. Kean, S. Marble, and J. Lemke. 1997. Multiple perspective analysis of the role of language in inquiry science learning. Electronic Journal of Science Education vol.2, no.1.]
"Emergent Agendas in Collaborative Activity" Paper presented at American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco (April 1995). _Research in Education_, January 1996. Arlington VA: ERIC Documents Service (ED 386 425), 1996.
"Hypermedia and Higher Education" in T.M. Harrison and T.D. Stephen, Eds. Computer Networking and Scholarship in the 21st Century University. Albany: SUNY Press. 1996. 215-232.
"Self-Organization and Psychological Theory." Review of L.B. Smith & E. Thelen, Eds., A Dynamic Systems Approach to Development. Theory & Psychology, 6(2): 352-356, 1996.
"Emptying the Center: On Gee's 'Mobots and Classrooms'" Organization 3(3): 411-418, 1996.
"Cognition, Context, and Learning: A Social Semiotic Perspective" in D. Kirshner and A. Whitson, Eds., Situated Cognition: Social, Semiotic, and Psychological Perspectives. (pp. 37-55). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. 1997.
Review of Signs of Writing (Roy Harris). Functions of Language, 4 (1): 125-129. 1997.
"Multiplying Meaning: Visual and Verbal Semiotics in Scientific Text" in J.R. Martin & R. Veel, Eds., Reading Science. London: Routledge. (pp.87-113). 1998.
"Analysing Verbal Data: Principles, Methods, and Problems" in K. Tobin & B. Fraser, (Eds). International Handbook of Science Education. London: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 1175-1189. 1998.
"Metamedia Literacy: Transforming Meanings And Media" In D. Reinking, L. Labbo, M. McKenna, & R. Kiefer (Eds.), Handbook of Literacy and Technology: Transformations in a Post-Typographic World. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. pp.283-301. 1998.
Review of From Positivism to Interpretivism and Beyond (Heshusius & Ballard). Anthropology and Education Quarterly 29(2): 255-257. June, 1998.
"Resources for Attitudinal Meaning: Evaluative Orientations in Text Semantics." Functions of Language 5(1): 33-56, 1998.
"Discourse and Organizational Dynamics: Website Communication and Institutional Change" Discourse and Society 10(1): 21-47. 1999.
Review of: Discourse as Structure and Process (T. A. van Dijk, Ed.). Language in Society 28(1): 6-9. 1999.
"Meaning-Making in the Conversation" Human Development 42 (2): 87-91. 1999.
"Typological and Topological Meaning in Diagnostic Discourse." Discourse Processes 27(2), 173-185. 1999.
Review
of Writing Superheroes: Contemporary Childhood, Popular Culture, and
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(1): 110-112. 1999.
"Multimedia
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“Multiple timescales and semiotics in complex ecosocial systems” Interjournal of Complex Systems, Reports, ms. #405 [http://www.interjournal.org]. Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Complex Systems, May 2000. Nashua, NH: New England Complex Systems Institute.
“Opening
Up Closure: Semiotics Across Scales” In J. Chandler and G. van de Vijver, Eds.
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"Material
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P.B. Andersen, C. Emmeche, and N.O. Finnemann-Nielsen, Eds. Downward
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"Across the Scales of Time: Artifacts, Activities, and Meanings in Ecosocial Systems" Mind, Culture, and Activity 7(4): 273-290. 2000.
“The Long and the Short of It: Comments on multiple timescale studies of
human activity” Journal of the Learning Sciences 10 (1-2):
193-202. 2000.
“Intertextuality and the Project of Text Linguistics” TEXT 20 (2),
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"Articulating Communities: Sociocultural Perspectives on Science
Education." Journal of Research on Science Teaching 38 (3): 296-316. 2001.
“Science
and Experience.” In Wallace, J. & Louden, W. (Eds.). Dilemmas
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"Semantic Topography and Textual Meaning." In J. de Villiers and R. Stainton, Eds. Communication in Linguistics. Toronto: Editions du GREF. Pp. 237-260. 2001.
Discursive technologies and the social organization of
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"Multimedia
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"Ensenar todos los lenguages de la ciencia: palabras, simbolos, imagenes, y acciones." In M. Benlloch (ed.), La educacion en ciencias. Barcelona: Paidos. pp. 159-186. 2002.
“Discursive
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“Becoming the Village: Education
across Lives” In G. Wells and G. Claxton, Eds. Learning for Life in the 21st
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"Ideology, Intertextuality,
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“Multiplying
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viewing children’s thinking.” Human Development 45 (3): 194 –
199. 2002.
“Review of R.
Scollon: Mediated Discourse: The Nexus of Practice.” Journal of
Sociolinguistics 6(3): 457-460. 2002.
“Travels in
Hypermodality.” Visual Communication 1(3): 299-325. 2002.
“Language
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learning.” In C. Kramsch, Ed. Language Acquisition and Language Socialization.
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"Mathematics
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"The Role of Texts in the Technologies of Social
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“Beyond Literacy: Semiotics and the Civilization of Hypercomplexity” Review of Mihai Nadin, The Civilization of Illiteracy. Semiotica 144: 381-387. 2003.
“The literacies of science.” In E. Wendy Saul, Ed., Crossing Borders in Literacy and Science Instruction. (pp. 33 -47). Newark, DE: International Reading Association and Arlington, VA: NSTA Press, 2004.
“Beyond Literacy: Semiotics and the Civilization of Hypercomplexity” Reprinted in Mercedes Vilanova and Frederic Chorda, Eds. A Mind at Work: Homage to Mihai Nadin. Heidelberg: Synchron. 2004.
“Multiplying intelligences: Hypermedia and social semiotics.” In Joe L. Kincheloe, Ed. Multiple Intelligences Reconsidered. (pp. 177 – 200). New York: Peter Lang. 2004.
“Intertextuality and Educational Research.” In D. Bloome and N. Shuart-Faris, Eds. Uses of Intertextuality in Classroom and Educational Research. pp. 3 - 17. Greenwich, Conn: Information Age Publishing. 2005. [Republication of Lemke 1992a]
“Place, Pace, and Meaning: Multimedia chronotopes.” In Norris, Sigrid & Jones, Rodney (Eds.), Discourse in Action: Introducing Mediated Discourse Analysis. pp. 110-122. Routledge. 2005.
“Critical Analysis across Media: Games, Franchises, and the New Cultural Order.” In Labarta Postigo, M. (Ed.) Approaches to Critical Discourse Analysis. Valencia: University of Valencia. (CDROM edition). 2005.
“Multimedia Genres and Traversals.” In E. Ventola, P. Muntigl, & H. Gruber, Eds., Approaches to Genre, special issue of Folia Linguistica, 39 (1-2), 2005. pp. 45-56.
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IN PRESS:
“Video Epistemology In-and-Outside the Box: Traversing Attentional Spaces.” To appear in Goldman-Segall, R. & Pea, R., Barron, B. & Derry, S., Eds., Video Research in the Learning Sciences. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
“Identity, Development, and Desire: Critical Questions.” In Caldas-Coulthard, C. & Iedema, R. (Eds.) Identity Trouble: Critical Discourse and Contestations of Identification. London: Macmillan/Palgrave.
Lemke, J.L. and N. Sabelli. “Complex Systems and Educational Change: Towards a New Research Agenda.” Journal of the Learning Sciences. [under revision]
“Transmedia Identities: Critical Analysis and New Media.” To appear in J. Todoli & R. Dolon (Eds.), On Identities. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
“Multi-scale Meaning: The Organization of Texts, Lives, and Communities.” To appear in New Paradigms of Knowledge, E. Ribeiro Pedro, I. Fernandes, et al., Eds. Lisbon: University of Lisbon.