Vernacular Literacy: A Re-Evaluation

ISBN-13: 9780198236351 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 384 str.

Le Page Tabouret-Keller; Gabrielle Varro; Penelope Gardner-Chloros

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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