Language and Literacy in Social Practice: A Reader

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Multilingual Matters, 1993 - 271 pages
Compiled for use in the Open University MA course E825. The 15 articles sample the ideas over the past decade on the importance of social factors in language and literacy development. They include theoretical and ethnographic accounts, cross-cultural and historical perspectives, and explorations of the political aspects and the discourses within which language and literacy are discussed. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Toward Ethnographies of Communication
11
Language and Ideology
44
STUDIES OF LANGUAGE PRACTICES
58
Narrative Skills at Home
73
Literacies Among the Panjabis in Southall Britain
96
Narrative Literacy and Consciousness
117
LITERACY CULTURE AND HISTORY
139
From The Savage Mind to Ways With Words
168
The Beginnings of English Literary Study in British India
215
Gender Language and the Politics of Literacy
233
The Adult Literacy Process as Cultural Action for Freedom
252
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