Class, Codes
and Control

BASIL BERNSTEIN on elaborated and restricted codes — the work that put social class at the centre of the sociology of language, and that educational policy argued over for a generation. Copyright 1971 Basil Bernstein; SECOND REVISED EDITION 1974; FIRST PUBLISHED BY SCHOCKEN BOOKS 1975 — this copy. LC 74-9130; originally published as Volume 1 of the author’s Class, Codes and Control. Dedicated “For Marion”. Its subject-headings — sociolinguistics, children and language — place it beside Stubbs’s Educational Linguistics in the part of this collection closest to school language policy.