The Struggle and the Tools - Oral and Literate Strategies in an Inner City Community

Explores the daily lives of a group of inner city residents, focusing particularly upon their language use and other types of literate strategies used to gain resources, access to social institutions, and respect.

About the author

Ellen Cushman is a Senior Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.

Product details

• Authors: Ellen Cushman
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.1998
• EAN: 9780791439821
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-3982-1
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 226 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 381 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories