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Academic Discourse : Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power
Overview
Pierre Bourdieu and his associates explore through a careful study of the role of language and linguistic misunderstanding in the teaching contexts of higher education. They study the extent to which university students actually understand the academic discourse they hear in lectures, as well as the factors that influence the ways in which students' essays are assessed. They also examine the extent to which the mastery and the misunderstanding of academic discourse depends on the social background of the individuals concerned.
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- ISBN-13: 9780804726887
- ISBN-10: 0804726884
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
- Publish Date: March 1996
- Dimensions: 9.01 x 6.03 x 0.49 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.54 pounds
- Page Count: 144
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