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Hammersley, Martyn. 1981. Putting competence into action: Some sociological notes on a model of classroom interaction. In French, Peter and Margaret MacLure, eds. Adult-child conversation. Croom Helm. pp. 47–58.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English

Annotation

H. shows that some recent work in linguistics, sociolinguistics and the philosophy of language predicates a kind of sociological theory which is unsatisfactory in a number of different ways. He contrasts competence and action models of social interaction.

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