Class, Language and Learning
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ideas Of course, middle-class people also make use of language in this kind of way, but as well as using this 'restricted code' Bernstein has shown that middleclass speakers have a greater control over what he terms the 'elaborated code'?the kind of speech used for communication with strangers, for the communition of complicated information, for expressing abstract ideas, rather than just descriptive accounts and narrative sequences. The tendency for working' class children to be brought up in a home where language is used in a more limited range of contexts will therefore handicap them when, later on in school
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