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Brooke, Mark – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2020
This study draws on Legitimation Code Theory (LCT), particularly semantic gravity waving, as a strategy for academic literacies practitioners to conceptualise how knowledge in their field might be organised and presented. Students can be guided to notice meanings related to context-dependency at the discourse and lexico-grammatical levels through…
Descriptors: Semantics, Literacy, Academic Language, Connected Discourse