- Title
- The discourse of postgraduate seminars
- Creator
- De Klerk, Vivian A
- Date Issued
- 1995
- Date
- 1995
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- vital:6132
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011584
- Description
- Video recordings of a range of postgraduate seminars in the Arts Faculty at a South African university were made and analyzed, in order to define the current nature of this particular form of educational practice in South African tertiary institutions. Recent demographic changes in formerly White universities are having a significant effect on the nature of interaction in formal discussion groups. Despite a common perception that at a tertiary level tutors and students are equally entitled to speak and all contributions equally valued, this article reveals that postgraduate seminars are sites of competition for the floor and that there are significant imbalances in participation by different groups in this competitive speaking environment; it is further argued that these imbalances reflect different (culture- and gender-specific) assumptions about what constitutes appropriate participation and also, to some degree, previous learned discourse patterns associated with schooling experience.
- Format
- 20 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Linguistics and Education
- Language
- English
- Relation
- De Klerk, V.A. (1995) The discourse of postgraduate seminars. Linguistics and Education, 7 (3). pp. 157-174. ISSN 0898-5898
- Rights
- De Klerk, Vivian A
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