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Author:   Barbara Mayor ,  A. K. Pugh
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.566kg
ISBN:  

9780709935902

ISBN 10:   0709935900
Pages:   476
Publication Date:   27 November 1986
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Section 1: Language and Other Communication Systems 1.1 Primate Communication 1.2 British Sign Language 1.3 The President’s Speech 1.4 The Berber House Section 2: Standardisation and Diversity in Language 2.1 Standardisation in English 2.2 Our Reactions to Accent 2.3 Social Network and Language Maintenance 2.4 White Adolescent Creole Users and the Politics of Friendship 2.5 Women in Their Speech Communities 2.6 Welsh and English in Wales Section 3: Language, Power and Control 3.1 The Vocabulary of Power, Rank and Status 3.2 Bias in Language: the Case of Sexism 3.3 Sociolinguistic Rules of Address 3.4 Problems and Problems: Power Relationships in a Medical Encounter 3.5 “Women’s Language” or “Powerless Language”? 3.6 Patterns of Power and Authority in Classroom Talk Section 4: Learning Communication Skills 4.1 From Communicating to Talking 4.2 What No Bedtime Story Means: Narrative Skills at Home and School 4.3 Language-learner Language 4.4 The Description of Bilingualism 4.5 Some New Developments in Social Skills Training 4.6 A Case Study of a T-group Section 5: Language in Classroom Learning 5.1 Teaching and Learning as the Creation of Meanings 5.2 Ground-rules for Mutual Understanding: a Social Psychological Approach to Classroom Knowledge 5.3 Beyond Lip-service: Discourse Development After the Age of Nine Section 6: Literacy 3 6.1 On Being Literate in an Age of Information 6.2 Illiteracy in Context 6.3 Functional Literacy: Fond Illusions and False Economies 6.4 The Comprehension Revolution: a Twenty-year History of Process Related to Reading Comprehension

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Barbara M. Mayor, A.K. Pugh Open University

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