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Download full textBerger, Allen – 1999
This paper comments on the topic of literacy and politics by answering a question: "Why can't literacy educators seem to reach the politicians?" The discussion in the paper shows how educators and politicians communicate in different languages; when speaking about education educators tend to use their own jargon, while policymakers tend…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Discourse Communities, Jargon, Language Usage
