Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780804726887)

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.

Author: Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-Claude Passeron, Monique de Saint Martin
ISBN-10: 0804726884
ISBN-13: 9780804726887
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1996
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.03w x 0.49d