Brian Street's volume investigates the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and societies. These largely ethnographic essays bring together anthropological and linguistic work written over the past ten years by anthropologists and sociolinguists. Accounts of literacy practices vary from one context to another, and challenge the view that literacy is a single, uniform skill, essential to functioning in a modern society. The conclusions reached will be crucial for future researchers, and of interest to educators, developers and practitioners in the field.
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"...the volume on the whole is excellent and can be highly recommended." The Modern Language Journal
"This excellent volume....illustrates how widely the use of literacy varies from the popular conception of literacy in Western circles." Studies in Oral and Literate Culture
"This excellent volume....illustrates how widely the use of literacy varies from the popular conception of literacy in Western circles." Studies in Oral and Literate Culture
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Investigation of the meanings and uses of literacy in different cultures and societies reveals that accounts of literacy practices vary from one context to another, and challenges the view that literacy is a single, uniform skill, essential to functioning within a modern society.
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During the last century a number of societies that previously had little or no acquaintance with literacy have come to use reading and writing as part of their communicative repertoire. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
conciliatory feast, kiaa koe, interpreter strategy, emotion verbs, literacy practices, playful writing, adolescent writing, swamp taro, communicative repertoire, literacy events, storytelling rights, local literacies, restricted literacy, vernacular writing, autonomous model, literate skills, vernacular literacy, oral interaction, multilingual settings, literate practices, forged notes, literacy studies, literacy use Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Seal Bay, Pao Youa, Cambridge University Press, New York, United States, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Tok Pisin, Chou Chang, Moroccan Arabic, Orthodox Church, Oxford University Press, City High School, Holy Script, Los Angeles, Village Governance, Puerto Rican, Church of the Lord, Ellice Islands, Lawrence Erlbaum, University of Pennsylvania, York Times, Harvard University Press, Journal of Education, Kodiak Island New!
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During the last century a number of societies that previously had little or no acquaintance with literacy have come to use reading and writing as part of their communicative repertoire. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
conciliatory feast, kiaa koe, interpreter strategy, emotion verbs, literacy practices, playful writing, adolescent writing, swamp taro, communicative repertoire, literacy events, storytelling rights, local literacies, restricted literacy, vernacular writing, autonomous model, literate skills, vernacular literacy, oral interaction, multilingual settings, literate practices, forged notes, literacy studies, literacy use Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Seal Bay, Pao Youa, Cambridge University Press, New York, United States, Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, Tok Pisin, Chou Chang, Moroccan Arabic, Orthodox Church, Oxford University Press, City High School, Holy Script, Los Angeles, Village Governance, Puerto Rican, Church of the Lord, Ellice Islands, Lawrence Erlbaum, University of Pennsylvania, York Times, Harvard University Press, Journal of Education, Kodiak Island New!
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