Teacher-Learner Interactions in the Written Media. A case study of the introductory chapters in economics textbooks.

Teacher-Learner Interaction in the Written Media investigates the dialogue that takes place between the writer and his/her reader. In particular, the book focuses on a corpus made up of the introductory chapters of ten economic textbooks. Starting from register analysis and moving on to discourse and genre analysis, the book looks at how writers succeed in managing the interplay between pedagogical principles and subject knowledge and concentrates on the particular strategies that writers employ to reach their two-fold aim: to teach the basics of the discipline and to make students accept what they are learning.