Language of Experience - Literate Practices and Social Change

Relying on Gestalt theory, this work describes the relationship between literacy and change in both personal and social situations. It presents historical and contemporary case studies, emphasizing the ways language interacts with perception.

About the author

Gwen Gorzelsky, assistant professor in the Composition Program at Wayne State University, is developing a service-learning initiative that involves undergraduate students and their graduate student instructors in Detroit communities.

Summary

Relying on Gestalt theory, this work describes the relationship between literacy and change in both personal and social situations. It presents historical and contemporary case studies, emphasizing the ways language interacts with perception.

Product details

• Authors: Gwen Gorzelsky
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.04.2005
• EAN: 9780822958741
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-5874-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 358 g
• Series: Pittsburgh Series in Compositi; Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture; Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy and Culture; Composition, Literacy, and Cul; Composition, Literacy, and Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics