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PhD Linguistics Stanford University
Masters Linguistics Stanford University
Bachelors Mathematics University of California, Santa Barbara

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According to Wikipedia, James Gee is a retired American researcher who has worked in psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, bilingual education, and literacy. Gee most recently held the position as the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University, originally appointed there in the Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education. Gee has previously been a faculty affiliate of the Games, Learning, and Society group at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is a member of the National Academy of Education.

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What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy (2007) (6826)
A pedagogy of Multiliteracies Designing Social Futures (1996) (5186)
Social Linguistics And Literacies: Ideology in Discourse (1996) (4107)
Identity as an analytic lens for research in education (2000) (2481)
Social Linguistics and Literacies (1990) (1761)
Social Linguistics and Literacies : Ideology in Discourses (2008) (1373)
The New Work Order (1996) (915)
Video Games and the Future of Learning (2005) (866)
How Computer Games Help Children Learn (2006) (826)
How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit (2014) (775)
Chapter 3 : Identity as an Analytic Lens for Research in Education (2000) (773)
Learning by Design: Good Video Games as Learning Machines (2005) (720)
Good video games and good learning (2007) (704)
The Social Mind: Language, Ideology, and Social Practice (1992) (639)
Discourse Analysis, Learning, and Social Practice: A Methodological Study (1998) (615)
Reading as Situated Language : A Sociocognitive Perspective (2001) (606)
Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction (1989) (521)
An introduction to discourse analysis (2005) (468)
Performance structures: A psycholinguistic and linguistic appraisal (1983) (465)
Good Video Games + Good Learning: collected essays on video games, learning and literacy (2013) (461)
A Linguistic Approach to Narrative (1991) (457)
The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis (2023) (457)
Semiotic Social Spaces and Affinity Spaces From The Age of Mythology to Today's Schools (2005) (418)
Discourse Analysis: What Makes It Critical? (2004) (390)
Language in the Science Classroom: Academic Social Languages as the Heart of School-Based Literacy (2004) (344)
The Narrativization of Experience in the Oral Style. (1985) (316)
Chapter 4: Discourse Analysis, Learning, and Social Practice: A Methodological Study (1998) (280)
Teenagers in New Times: A New Literacy Studies Perspective. (2000) (274)
Units in the production of narrative discourse (1986) (267)
Why Video Games Are Good for Your Soul: Pleasure and Learning (2005) (266)
Orality and Literacy: From the Savage Mind to Ways with Words (1986) (263)
New People in New Worlds: Networks, the New Capitalism and Schools (2005) (260)
Learning by design: Games as learning machines (2004) (255)
WHAT IS LITERACY? (2019) (246)
Prosodic structure and spoken word recognition (1987) (233)
New Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Area and "Worked Examples" as One Way Forward (2009) (214)
Video Games and Embodiment (2008) (212)
Discourse and Sociocultural Studies in Reading (2000) (199)
Critical Issues: Reading and the New Literacy Studies: Reframing the National Academy of Sciences Report on Reading (1999) (187)
A sociocultural perspective on opportunity to learn. (2008) (180)
Deep Learning Properties of Good Digital Games: How Far Can They Go? (2009) (170)
What Would a State of the Art Instructional Video Game Look like (2005) (162)
Literacy and Education (2014) (161)
Socio-Cultural Approaches to Literacy (Literacies) (1991) (152)
The social mind (1992) (151)
Message from the “Island group”: What is literacy in science literacy? (2003) (142)
Opportunity to Learn: A language-based perspective on assessment (2003) (137)
The New Literacy Studies and the "Social Turn.". (1999) (136)
Two Styles of Narrative Construction and Their Linguistic and Educational Implications (1989) (131)
The Anti-Education Era: Creating Smarter Students through Digital Learning (2013) (120)
Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn (2008) (116)
Language, Class, and Identity: Teenagers Fashioning Themselves Through Language (2001) (106)
Before Every Child Is Left Behind: How Epistemic Games Can Solve the Coming Crisis in Education. WCER Working Paper No. 2005-7. (2005) (105)
Why Game Studies Now? Video Games: A New Art Form (2006) (97)
Pleasure, Learning, Video Games, and Life: The Projective Stance (2005) (96)
Women and Gaming: The Sims and 21st Century Learning (2010) (93)
The New Work Order: critical language awareness and ‘fast capitalism’ texts (1995) (89)
Glued to Games: How Video Games Draw Us in and Hold Us Spellbound (2012) (84)
Discourse, Small d, Big D (2015) (84)
Games, Learning, and Society: Nurturing Affinity Spaces and Game-Based Learning (2012) (83)
Game–like learning: An example of situated learning and implications for opportunity to learn (2008) (83)
New times and new literacies: Themes for a changing world (2004) (81)
Literacies, identities, and discourses (2005) (81)
Video Games and the Future of Learning. WCER Working Paper No. 2005-4. (2005) (79)
Lo que nos enseñan los videojuegos sobre el aprendizaje y el alfabetismo (2004) (78)
The Legacies of Literacy: From Plato to Freire through Harvey Graff. (1988) (77)
Looking where the light is bad: Video games and the future of assessment (2010) (76)
Changing Literacies. Changing Education Series. (1997) (73)
Decontextualized Language: A Problem, Not a Solution (2014) (72)
Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century: Literate Connections (2007) (67)
Empirical Evidence for Narrative Structure (1984) (64)
Welcome to our virtual worlds (2009) (64)
Chapter 1. Learning Language as a Matter of Learning Social Languages within Discourses (2004) (60)
Two kinds of teenagers: Language, identity and social class. (1998) (59)
Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Field, Part I: How We Got Here (2009) (55)
Teaching, Learning, Literacy in Our High-Risk High-Tech World: A Framework for Becoming Human (2017) (55)
The Old and the New in the New Digital Literacies (2012) (53)
Narrative/Story Structure, Pausing, and American Sign Language. (1983) (51)
How to do Discourse Analysis: A Toolkit : A Toolkit (2010) (50)
The Idea of Testing: Psychometric and Sociocultural Perspectives (2005) (42)
Nativization, Linguistic Theory, and Deaf Language Acquisition (2013) (39)
Affinity spaces: How young people live and learn on line and out of school (2018) (39)
ON EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE ON GAMES AND LEARNING (2015) (39)
First language acquisition as a guide for theories of learning and pedagogy (1994) (39)
The Future of the Social Turn: Social Minds and the New Capitalism (1999) (39)
7. Learning in semiotic domains: A social and situated account (2008) (37)
Learning theory, video games, and popular culture (2008) (36)
Bons video games e boa aprendizagem (2010) (36)
Communities of Practice in the New Capitalism (2000) (35)
Language Learning and Deafness: American Sign Language and the human biological capacity for language (1988) (35)
Meaning making, communities of practice, and analytical toolkits (2005) (35)
Video Games, Learning, and “Content” (2009) (34)
Semantic Perspicuity and the Locative Hypothesis: Implications for Acquisition * (1982) (33)
Games for Learning (2013) (33)
Good Videogames, the Human Mind, and Good Learning (2008) (32)
Public Pedagogy through Video Games (2009) (32)
Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century (2007) (32)
Introducing Discourse Analysis: From Grammar to Society (2017) (31)
Assessment Through the Lens of “Opportunity to Learn” (2008) (31)
Discourse Systems and Aspirin Bottles: On Literacy (1988) (29)
Affinity spaces and 21st century learning (2017) (28)
Stories, probes, and games (2011) (27)
Reflections on Reading Cope and Kalantzis' “‘Multiliteracies’: New Literacies, New Learning” (2009) (25)
Metal Gear Solid (2014) (24)
It's Theories All the Way Down: A Response to Scientific Research in Education. (2005) (24)
Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn: Frontmatter (2008) (22)
On Mobots and Classrooms: The Converging Languages of the New Capitalism and Schooling (1996) (21)
The Limits of Reframing: A Response to Professor Snow (2000) (21)
Games, Learning, and 21st Century Survival Skills (2009) (20)
An introduction to human language : fundamental concepts in linguistics (1993) (20)
Discourse, learning, and schooling: Vygotsky and current debates in education: some dilemmas as afterthoughts to Discourse, Learning, and Schooling (1996) (20)
Being a Lion and Being a Soldier (2008) (19)
Discourse and “the New Literacy Studies” (2011) (19)
Discourses in and out of school: Looking back (2013) (18)
Games as Distributed Teaching and Learning Systems (2017) (17)
Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn: ASSESSMENT, EQUITY, AND OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN (2008) (17)
No Selling the Genie Lamp: A Game Literacy Practice in The Sims (2010) (17)
Designing for deep learning in the context of digital and social media (2019) (17)
Orality and literacy: A symposium in honor of David Olson (2006) (17)
Cats and Portals: Video Games, Learning, and Play. (2008) (16)
Dracula, the Vampire Lestat, and TESOL. (1988) (15)
Digital Games and Libraries. (2012) (15)
Discourses: Reflections on M.A.K. Halliday's “toward a language-based theory of learning” (1994) (15)
Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn: Game-Like Learning (2008) (14)
“No Quitting without Saving after Bad Events”: Gaming Paradigms and Learning in The Sims (2009) (14)
Discourses and literacies (2015) (13)
Human Action and Social Groups as the Natural Home of Assessment: Thoughts on 21st Century Learning and Assessment (2010) (13)
Literacies, schools, and kinds of people in the new capitalism (2005) (13)
Identity and diversity in today’s world (2017) (12)
chapter 15 Reflections on Assessment From a Sociocultural‐Situated Perspective (2007) (12)
The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy: Literacy, Video Games, and Popular Culture (2009) (11)
El diseño para el aprendizaje profundo en los medios de comunicación sociales y digitales (2019) (11)
Slogans with Chinese characteristics: The political functions of a discourse form (2020) (11)
Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn: Introduction (2008) (10)
Review of the “Learning Paradox” Manuscript (1999) (10)
Perception, intentionality, and naked infinitives : a study in linguistics and philosophy (1975) (10)
Accountable Talk and Learning in Popular Culture: The Game/Affinity Paradigm (2015) (10)
Semantic Perspicuity and the Locative Hypothesis (1982) (10)
The vexed nature of language learning and teaching (2015) (10)
Discourse analysis matters: bridging frameworks (2016) (9)
“Inside the Head and Out in the World”. An Approach to Deep Teaching and Learning (2020) (9)
Mind and Society: A Response to Derek Edwards’‘Emotion Discourse’ (1999) (9)
On qualitative and quantitative reasoning in validity (2008) (8)
Video games, design, and aesthetic experience (2016) (8)
Playing to learn game design skills in a game context (2008) (7)
Reading as Situated Language (2018) (7)
Tools of inquiry and discourses (2004) (7)
Discourse Versus discourse (2012) (5)
Language and social interaction at the century's turn (1999) (5)
New perspectives on learning through (game) design (2008) (5)
Passionate Affinity Groups (2010) (5)
Learning Systems, Not Games (2013) (5)
Playing metal gear solid 4 well: being a good snake (2009) (5)
Editors' introduction: Discourse styles: Variations across speakers, situations, and tasks (1989) (5)
Thinking, Learning, and Reading: The Situated Sociocultural Mind (2021) (5)
Games, Learning, and Society: Foreword (2012) (4)
Reflections on understanding, alignment, the social mind, and language in interaction (2015) (4)
Literacy, Emotion, and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll. Niko Besnier (1996) (4)
What do English Teachers Teach? (Or why isn't the Pope a Bachelor?) (1989) (4)
Situating identity and science discourse (2004) (4)
Three paradigms in reading (really literacy) research and digital media (2015) (4)
What Is a Human? (2020) (4)
Sociocultural literacy, discourses, and the new work order (2018) (4)
Video Games and The Future of Learning Most educators are dismissive of video games. But corporations, the government, and the military have already recognized and harnessed their tremendous educative power. Schools have to catch up, the authors argue. (2005) (4)
Terman (2020) (3)
Meaning and ideology (2007) (3)
El nuevo orden laboral: lo que se oculta tras el lenguaje del neocapitalismo (2002) (3)
The Literacies Institute: Its mission, activities, and perspective on literacy (1989) (3)
Shape-shifting portfolio people (2012) (3)
Language, individuals, and Discourses (2007) (3)
Language, individuals, and Discourses (2007) (3)
Language as saying, doing and being (2014) (3)
THE STRUCTURE OF PERCEPTION IN THE POETRY OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS A Stylistic Analysis (1985) (3)
Game-Design Teaching and Learning (2021) (3)
Book Review: Literate America on Illiterate America (1986) (3)
Meaning and ideology (2007) (3)
Science, Literacy, and Video Games: Situated Learning (2010) (2)
Reflection 2. Identity without identification (2009) (2)
A special invited issue: American sign language: Introducation (1983) (2)
Literacies of Play (2020) (2)
Review of Language and Learning in the Digital Age (2012) (2)
Digital Media and Learning as an Emerging Field, Part II: A Proposal for How to Use “Worked Examples” to Move Forward (2009) (2)
Games, passion, and “higher” education (2014) (2)
Essay Reviews: Toward a Realistic Theory of Language Acquisition (1986) (2)
The hero of timelines (2009) (2)
An introduction to human language (1993) (2)
Review: What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee. Co- authored with Cynthia L. Selfe and Scott Lloyd DeWitt (2004) (1)
The Nahom Maps (2008) (1)
How Passion Grows (2010) (1)
What's a screen mean in a video game? (2008) (1)
Discourse analysis : from grammar to society (2017) (1)
REFLECTIONS ON THE NATURE OF ASL AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF ASL LINGUISTICS: COMMENTS ON CORINA'S ARTICLE (1993) (1)
Media and discourse analysis Anne O’Keeﬀe (2013) (1)
Learning to read as a cultural process (2013) (1)
Sociocultural theory and blind taste-tests (2010) (1)
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS FOR LANGUAGE TEACHERS . Michael McCarthy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. Pp. x + 213. $37.50 cloth, $14.95 paper. (1992) (1)
as Situated Language : a Sociocognitive perspective (2013) (1)
Social Languages, Conversations, and Intertextuality (2014) (1)
What is to be done (2017) (1)
“Basic Information Structure” and “Academic Language”: An Approach to Discourse Analysis (2008) (1)
AGENDAS FOR SECOND LANGUAGE LITERACY . Sandra Lee McKay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. Pp. xvii + 151. $37.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. (1995) (1)
Affinity Spaces: How Young People Live and Learn Online and out of School: The Online World Has Given New Life to Older Traditions of Interest-Driven, Out-of-School Learning (2018) (1)
Dell Hymes, Ethnography, linguistics, narrative inequality: Toward an understanding of voice . (Critical perspectives on literacy and education.) London (UK) & Bristol(PA): Taylor & Francis, 1996. Pp. xiv, 258. Pb £14.95, $24.95. (1998) (1)
Video Games: A New Art Form (2012) (1)
Embodied Meaning (2020) (1)
A Unified Theory of Discourse Analysis (2014) (1)
Collected Essays on Learning and Assessment in the Digital World (2014) (1)
Anyone's Any: A View of Language and Poetry Through an Analysis of anyone lived in a pretty how town (1983) (1)
Ramblings of an old academic: Unconfident advice for end-times academics (2016) (1)
Discourse (1991) (1)
A Young Girl Becomes a Designer and Goes Global (2010) (0)
Language and identity at home (2012) (0)
Conclusion to Part I (2020) (0)
Presentación. Aprendizaje y medios digitales: formas emergentes de participación y transformación social = Introduction. Digital media and learning: emergent forms of participation and social transformation (2019) (0)
Words, images, and experiences (2011) (0)
Human-Made Monsters (2020) (0)
Three social formations (2011) (0)
A Systems Theory of Multimodality (2019) (0)
Conclusion to Part II (2020) (0)
The Imaginarium (2020) (0)
What Does It All Mean (2010) (0)
Literacy crises and the significance of literacy (2007) (0)
A Sensational Theory of Designed Experience (2021) (0)
Nordic Journal of Literacy Research – Some Prospects and Challenges (2015) (0)
Books and Games (2017) (0)
Literacy crises and the significance of literacy (2007) (0)
Sample of discourse analysis 3 (2004) (0)
James Paul Gee. 2010. An Introduction to Discourse Analysis. Theory and Method . 3rd edition. New York, London: Routledge, selected 2–10. (2014) (0)
National Academy of Sciences Report on Reading Critical Issues: Reading and the New Literacy Studies: Reframing the (2013) (0)
Language, the World, and Video Games: Teaching & Learning in an Imperiled World (2015) (0)
The Nickel and Dimed Challenge (2010) (0)
Examples of Fetishes (2020) (0)
Acknowledgments (2005) (0)
Proactive design theories of sign use: Reflections on Gunther Kress (2013) (0)
Stress and the State (2020) (0)
PROTEAN LITERACY: EXTENDING THE DISCOURSE ON EMPOWERMENT.Concha Delgado-Gaitan. London: Falmer Press, 1996. Pp. viii + 151. $74.95 cloth. (1998) (0)
Conclusion to Book (2020) (0)
Furthering the Goal of Cross-Disciplinary Dialogue. (2005) (0)
Unit 1: Language and Context (2010) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
Sociocultural theory and blind taste-tests : opinion (2010) (0)
Play and the Real World: A Response to Katherine Richardson Bruna’s Commentary (2010) (0)
Adjective Preposing and There Insertion: A Point About Syntactic Rules and Semantic Processes (1978) (0)
A Sensational View of Human Learning, Thinking, and Language (2022) (0)
Acknowledgments (2010) (0)
Another Attempt to Answer Our Question (2020) (0)
Morality Again (2020) (0)
Morality (2020) (0)
Syntax and Semantics (2014) (0)
Processing and organizing language (2004) (0)
Video Games and Twenty-First-Century Skills (2010) (0)
Stanford Occasional Papers in Linguistics, No. 3. Papers from the Annual California Linguistics Conference (3rd, May 5-6, 1973). (1973) (0)
Fast capitalism: theory and practice (2018) (0)
Well Played--Vol. 1, No. 1 (2015) (0)
It's Theories All the Way Down: A Response to Scientific Research in Education (2005) (0)
Commentary on Richardson Bruna’s Ways with Words: Language Play and the Science Learning of Mexican Newcomer Adolescents (2010) (0)
Cómo llevar los juegos a la escuela (2016) (0)
Rejoinder (2005) (0)
A Epistemically-Based Theory of Referential Distinctions (1978) (0)
Language (2020) (0)
A tale of one factory: teams at work (2018) (0)
Affinity (2019) (0)
Messages from the Dead (2020) (0)
Alignments: education and the new capitalism (2018) (0)
The Conscious Brain (2020) (0)
The Examined Life (2020) (0)
Cross-Cutting Themes (2007) (0)
Unit 2: Saying, Doing, and Designing (2010) (0)
Cats, passion, and expertise (2011) (0)
Multitasking, diversity, and commonality (2011) (0)
From The Sims to Second Life (2010) (0)
Welcome to Our Virtual Worlds It's far more likely that students will learn complex language and sophisticated problem-solving skills—when the fate of a (digital) world depends on it. (2009) (0)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (2002) (0)
Humans (2020) (0)
Afterword (2019) (0)
Discourse Analysis for Images and Multimodal Texts (2010) (0)
A Young Girl and Her Vampire Stories (2010) (0)
Alignment and Development (2014) (0)
More Than Animals? (2020) (0)
Frameworks, Committed Testers, and Science as a Form of Life (2019) (0)
New kinds of people and relationships (2011) (0)
Intercultural communication Helen Spencer-Oatey, Hale Is¸ık-Güler and Stefanie Stadler (2013) (0)
Conclusions to Part IV (2020) (0)
Foreword (2020) (0)
Conclusion to Part III (2020) (0)
“dentro de la cabeza y fuera en el mundo”. Una aproximación a la enseñanza y aprendizaje profundo (2020) (0)
Professional Reading Gender and Online Gaming (2012) (0)
A tale of one factory: training for teams (2018) (0)
Fetishes (2020) (0)
A tale of one village: global capitalism and Nicaragua (2018) (0)
Specific Universals (2020) (0)
This Issue (2015) (0)
Language in Education (1992) (0)
Doubling Fetishes (2020) (0)
Plug-and-Play (2020) (0)
The Gang of Six (2020) (0)
Vera John-Steiner, Carolyn P. Panofsky, & Larry W. Smith (eds.), Sociocultural approaches to language and literacy: An interactionist perspective . Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. vii, 402. Hb $59.95. (1996) (0)

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