Literacy in society

Abstract

Acknowledgemnts Introduction, Geoff Williams and Ruqaiya Hasan 1: Politics and knowledge about language: The LINC project, Ron Carter 2: On learning to look through a geographer's eyes, Theo van Leewen and Sally Humphrey 3: The development of language as a resource for thinking: A lingusitic view of learning, Clare Painter 4: Making changes: developing an educational linguistics, Joan Rothery 5: Evaluating disruption: symbolising theme in junior secondary narrative, J. R. Martin 6: Technology and/or weapon: the discipline of reading in the secondary English classroom, Anne Cranny-Francis 7: Learning to think like an historian: the langauage of secondary school history, Robert Weel and Caroline Cofin 8: Literacy and learning across the curriculum: towards a model of register for secondary teachers, Mary Rose Macken 9: Plain English: from a perspective of language in society, Nicky Solomon 10: Genres of Power? Literacy education and the production of capital, Allan Luke 11: Literacy and linguistics: a functional perspective, M. A. K. Halliday 12: Literacy, everyday talk and society, Ruqaiya Hasan Index