"Talk to Me of Disaster": Authoritative Discourse in the Schools.

Tennessen, Carol

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Publication Date: 1986

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"Talk to Me of Disaster": Authoritative Discourse in the Schools.

Tennessen, Carol

Anthropology and Education Quarterly, v17 n3 p131-44 Sep 1986

Examines ways authority comes to inhabit language. Schools are directly involved in production and distribution of authoritative discourse. In the French-speaking West Indies students are taught in the official language of authority (the French of France) rather than that of their everyday life (Creole). (Author/LHW)

Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Bilingualism, Creoles, Diglossia, Haitian Creole, Language of Instruction, Language Standardization, Nonstandard Dialects, Official Languages, Second Languages, Sociolinguistics

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Language: English

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