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Language, constitution and replica might be of significance to these drawn to the sociology of schooling, language and society, anthropological linguistics, communique reports - certainly an individual taken with the replica of information in modern society.

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Ritual is simultaneously a marker of structural features of school organization, and a component of that selfsame structure. Moreover the rituals (or their absence) are a powerful analytic lever on principles of authority, power, control and meaning. The underlying themes of the ritual paper are encapsulated as an interest in ‘the procedures which are used to maintain continuity, order and boundary and which control ambivalence towards the social order’ (Bernstein, Elvin and Peters, 1966, CCC 3, p.

Bernstein does not appear in this context to be concerned with a detailed specification of social class per se. It is a pervasive feature of this and his subsequent work that theories or measures of class are not discussed extensively, and this has long been a complaint on the part of some critics. His work has, over the years, been squeezed between class-theorists on the one hand and the linguists on the other; they have, of course, been joined by snipers of other persuasions as well. One thing is clear, however: Bernstein is not dealing with the sort of measures of social class that were being utilized by his contemporaries in the late 1950s.

8 Individual selection from a group of idiomatic phrases will frequently be found. 9 Symbolism is of a low order of generality. 10 The individual qualification is implicit in the sentence structure, therefore it is a language of implicit meaning. It is believed that this fact determines the form of the language. Formal 1 Accurate, grammatical order and syntax regulate what is said. 2 Logical modifications and stress are mediated through a grammatically complex sentence construction, especially through the use of conjunctions and relative clauses.

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