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1 online resource (240 pages) |
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Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language ; v.22 |
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Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- FOREWORD -- References -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Publishers' permissions -- Note -- 1 INTRODUCTION: TEXTS, POWER, AND IDENTITY -- Puzzles and pluralities of literacy -- Plan of the book -- 2 THE LITERACY THESIS: VEXED QUESTIONS OF RATIONALITY, DEVELOPMENT, AND SELF -- Introduction -- The origins of writing, the ideal of transcribing: a Native American case -- The literacy thesis -- Literacy, rationality, and social development -- Literacy and cognitive development -- A practice alternative to the literacy thesis -- Conclusion: intimations of textuality and power -- 3 SITUATED APPROACHES TO THE LITERACY DEBATE -- Introduction -- Heath -- Finnegan -- Street -- Influences of situated approaches -- Conclusion: implications of situated approaches -- 4 LITERACIES AND POWER IN MODERN NATION STATES: EURO-AMERICAN LESSONS -- Introduction -- The interplay of text and talk in early modern Europe -- Interlude: practice theory and modernity -- Literacy, nationalism, and education in the United States: the early national phase -- Literacy, nationalism, and education in the United States: the mature national phase -- Conclusion -- 5 LITERACIES AND IDENTITY FORMATION: AMERICAN CASES -- Introduction -- Basic arguments -- The salience of identity in the current era -- Language, literacy, and identity -- Literacy and identity projects: cases -- Heath -- Rose -- Gilyard -- Gender and identity: counter-cases -- Conclusion -- 6 LITERACY, POWER, AND IDENTITY: COLONIAL LEGACIES AND INDIGENOUS TRANSFORMATIONS -- Introduction -- Literacy as requirement: legitimating the conquest -- The scriptural economy in Hispaniola, the Andes, and New Spain -- The authority of colonial writing -- The erasure of native writing -- Reading beyond the text: postcolonial responses |
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Agency within and against a scriptural economy: invented writings and the crafting of hybrid selves -- Conclusion: identity, power, and poaching -- 7 CONCLUSION: LITERACY LESSONS - BEGINNINGS, ENDS, AND IMPLICATIONS -- Introduction -- The question of text and textual origins -- Prehistoric and fictive origins -- The Tolowa case: transformative origins -- Writing, archives, and power -- "Picture writing" and archives -- "Picture writing" and civilization -- Ends, instrumentalities, and identities -- End as death: questioning decline -- Literacy as instrumentality: questioning technology -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- 2 The literacy thesis: vexed questions of rationality, development, and self -- 3 Situated approaches to the literacy debate -- 4 Literacies and power in modern nation states -- 5 Literacies and identity formation: American cases -- 6 Colonial legacies and indigenous transformations -- 7 Conclusion: literacy lessons - beginnings, ends, and implications -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
| Summary |
Literacy and Literacies is an engaging account of literacy and its relation to power |
| Analysis |
Samfundsvidenskab Sociologi |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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ProQuest Ebook Central Rental |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Restricted |
Electronic resource (access conditions) |
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Online (ebrary) |
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Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
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Literacy -- Social aspects
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Literacy--Social aspects
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Sociolinguistics
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Electronic books.
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Literacy -- Social aspects.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Literacy.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Antropologia linguística.
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Letramento.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blot, Richard
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| LC no. |
2002031363 |
| ISBN |
9781139145589 electronic bk |
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