Literacy in society / [edited by] Ruqaiya Hasan and Geoff Williams. - xxi, 431 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. - Applied linguistics and language study . - Applied linguistics and language study. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series List -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Politics and knowledge about language: The LINC project -- On learning to look through a geographer's eyes -- The development of language as a resource for thinking: a linguistic view of learning -- Making changes: developing an educational linguistics -- Evaluating disruption: symbolising theme in junior secondary narrative -- Technology and/or weapon: the discipline of reading in the secondary English classroom -- Learning to think like an historian: the language of secondary school History -- Literacy and learning across the curriculum: towards a model of register for secondary school teachers -- Plain English: from a perspective of language in society -- Genres of power? Literacy education and the production of capital -- Literacy and linguistics: a functional perspective -- Literacy, everyday talk and society -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

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Written communication--Study and teaching
Literacy
Sociolinguistics.
Semiotics--Social aspects
Language and education
English language--Study and teaching

P211. / L727 1996

302.2244