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Bernstein's Codes: A Classroom Study. Education Area Occasional Paper, No. 6.

Cooper, Barry – 1976

This paper empirically examines one aspect of Basil Bernstein's sociolinguistic account of educational failure, a code thesis wherein a restricted code is defined as giving access only to "particularistic" meanings and an elaborated code is defined as giving access also to "universalistic" meanings. According to Bernstein,…

Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Failure, Communication (Thought Transfer), Comprehension