Language and Power in Organizational Process.

Mehan, Hugh

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Publication Date: 1987

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Language and Power in Organizational Process.

Mehan, Hugh

Discourse Processes, Special Issue v10 n4 p291-301 Oct-Dec 1987

Examines language use in school contexts to address the relationship between power as a feature of social structure and power as an interactional process (the macro-micro issue in sociology). Illustrates the way in which political, economic, and legal considerations exert constraining influence on social interaction. (MM)

Descriptors: Educational Planning, Educational Psychology, Educational Sociology, Politics of Education, School Community Relationship, Social Mobility, Sociolinguistics, Student Placement

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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