Vernacular Literacy - A Re-Evaluation

Zusatztext A number of key issues of great complexity is raised by the papers in this book. No attentive reader could emerge from these pages able to utter glib programmatic definitions or characterisations of literacy development needs and difficulties. A multi-authored and very wide-ranging book. A valuable publication for its reports from the field. - Geoff Hall - Journal of Sociolinguistics 3/3 1999 Klappentext This book contains first-hand information on the history, economics, and politics surrounding literacy issues all over the world. Discussions are supported by case-studies of campaigns to promote vernacular languages, and examples of how people relate to their languages in different cultures. Providing a non-Western perspective, the contributors question traditional notions of the uses of literacy. Zusammenfassung Illiteracy problems are worldwide, and growing. Taking "The Use of Vernacular Languages in Education", as their starting point, in this volume the authors assess the nature and significance of the events that have taken place since then, providing a global overview.

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• Authors: Andree Tabouret-Keller, Andree (Professor Tabouret-Keller, Andree Le Page Tabouret-Keller, Le Page Tabouret-Keller
• Assisted by: Penelope Gardner-Chloros (Editor), Penelope (Lecturer in Linguistics Gardner-Chloros (Editor), Gardner-Chloros Penelope (Editor), R. B. Le Page (Editor), R. B. (Professor Emeritus of Language and Linguistics Le Page (Editor), R.B. (Professor Emeritus of Language and Linguistics Le Page (Editor), Robert B Le Page (Editor), Robert B. Le Page (Editor), Tabouret-Keller (Editor), Andree Tabouret-Keller (Editor), Andr'ee Tabouret-Keller (Editor), Andrée Tabouret-Keller (Editor), Andree (Professor Tabouret-Keller (Editor), Gabrielle Varro (Editor), Gabrielle (Research Scholar Varro (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1997
• EAN: 9780198236351
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823635-1
• No. of pages: 380
• Series: Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Anthropologi; Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Anthropologi
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, Literacy, Anthropology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Sociolinguistics, Communication Studies, Language acquisition, Literacy (Theories of reading and writing)