Response to Arts of the Contact Zone “When linguistic ( or literate) interaction is described in terms of orderliness, games, moves, or scripts, usually only legitimate moves are actually named as part of the system, where legitimacy is defined from the point of view of the party in authority - regardless of what other parties might see themselves as doing. Teacher- pupil language, for example, tends to be described almost entirely from the point of view …showed first 75 words of 501 total…

…showed last 75 words of 501 total…but only amongst themselves, without the presence of an authoritive figure. Mary Louise Pratt states who has the last word when two different parties interact, the authoritive figure. What’s right or wrong in their own image regardless of what the lower party thinks. The rules only change when parties of the same class or culture interact, enabling them to discuss their own viewpoints amongst each other, not whats in the images of higher parties.