Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power

by Pierre Bourdieu

2021-01-10 08:32:31

Education depends crucially on language: knowledge and skills are taught through a process of linguistic exchange. But how much of the language used by teachers and professors is actually understood by students? To what extent does the social backgro... Read more
Education depends crucially on language: knowledge and skills are taught through a process of linguistic exchange. But how much of the language used by teachers and professors is actually understood by students? To what extent does the social background of students affect their capacity to understand the language used in the classroom or the lecture hall? Why do students and teachers overestimate the success of the educational process and underestimate the degree of misunderstanding involved?In this important work Pierre Bourdieu and his associates explore these and other questions through a careful study of the role of language and linguistic misunderstanding in the teaching contexts of higher education. Less

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File size9 X 6 X 0.4 in
Print pages144
PublisherStanford University Press
Publication date March 1, 1996
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780804726887
Pierre Bourdieu was the Professor of Sociology at the Collège de France....

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