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Author Janks, Hilary.

Title Language & position / Hilary Janks
Published Johannesburg : Hodder & Stoughton in association with Witwatersrand University Press, 1993

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 MELB  306.44 Jan/Lap  AVAILABLE
Description iv, 24 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Series Critical language awareness series
Materials for the classroom
Critical language awareness series.
Materials for the classroom
Contents Does where we stand matter? -- Where's the top? -- North is up and south is down but the world is round -- How do South African map makers draw South Africa? -- Standpoint or point of view -- Positions based on who we are -- The writer's position and the reader's position -- How we use language to position other people -- Positioning -- Do newspapers use language to position readers? -- How a writer of history uses language to position readers -- How a different historian positions the reader differently -- History from above and history from below -- Positioning ocuurs in contexts -- 'Where' is part of the context that affects meaning -- What we know from previous texts is part of the context -- Pictures are part of the context -- Using what we have learnt to read texts critically -- Text to interrogate
Analysis juvenile Nonfiction
Notes For use with secondary school students
Subject Communication.
Control (Psychology)
English language -- South Africa -- Usage -- Political aspects.
Language and history -- South Africa.
Language and languages.
Persuasion (Psychology)
Rhetoric.
Sociolinguistics -- Problems, exercises, etc. -- Juvenile literature.
Sociolinguistics.
Sociology -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Written communication.
SUBJECT South Africa. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125452
ISBN 0947054928
Other Titles Language and position