The semiotics of authority: a closely-observed lesson. Issue 2 (3rd April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Philp, Hannah
• Is Part Of: Changing English. Volume 26:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 181
• Page End: 187
• Publication Date: 2019-04-03
• Subjects: Semiotics -- authority -- contestation -- text -- space; English literature -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; English language -- Study and teaching -- Periodicals; 410
• DOI: 10.1080/1358684X.2019.1589368
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1358-684X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article looks at the ways in which the semiotics of authority are established and challenged during a secondary school English lesson on The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde . I focus on the utterances of one student and the context of the classroom in which she finds herself as a means to explore the ways in which pedagogic identities and relationships are negotiated and contested.