Language & Intercultural Communication
Editor: Dr John Corbett (University of Glasgow)
Associate Editor: Robert Crawshaw (Lancaster University)
Reviews and Criticism Editor: Dr Fiona J. Doloughan (University of Surrey)
Editorial Board: Gavin Jack (University of Stirling)
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Volume: 4 Number: 3 Page: 134–158
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Genres of the Third Space: The Communities Strike Back
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Tom Bartlett
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This paper looks at the role of situated discourse-as-practice in denaturalising and delegitimising capitalist/integrationist models of development espoused by many national and transnational groups. It focuses on intercultural discourse between the Makushi Amerindians of Guyana and professional development workers and draws on the descriptive methods of Systemic Functional Linguistics, Bernstein’s theory of classification and framing and Bourdieu’s notions of habitus and symbolic power. I suggest that enhanced community participation within development discourse-as-practice accommodated to local discursive practice can alter the dominant Discourse-as-Ideology.
Keywords: development discourse, Makushi, Makushi, legitimate voice, register, Bernstein
© 2004 T. Bartlett
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