Literacy in (Inter)Action.

Authors :: Barton, Ellen L.
Source :: College English. Apr 1997 59(4):408-437.
Publication Year :: 1997
Abstract: Examines the ways in which literacy functions in institutional encounters and focuses on the ways literacy interacts with power and authority. Examines the enactment of literacy in medical encounters. Finds that institutional encounters enacting the discourse system of American medicine reproduce power and dominance in fairly predictable ways. (TB)

Language :: English
ISSN :: 0010-0994
Volume :: 59
Issue :: 4
Database :: ERIC
Journal :: College English
Publication Type :: Report
Accession number :: EJ542496
Document Type :: Reports - Evaluative<br />Opinion Papers<br />Journal Articles