Title Literacy : an introduction to the ecology of written language / David Barton

Published Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1994

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Description x, 247 pages ; 23 cm Contents 1. An Integrated Approach to Literacy -- 2. Talking About Literacy -- 3. The Social Basis of Literacy -- 4. Literacy Embedded in Language -- 5. Languages and Literacies -- 6. Configurations of Language -- 7. Writing Systems and Other Notations -- 8. Points in History -- 9. The Roots of Literacy -- 10. Emergent Literacy -- 11. Public Definitions of Literacy -- 12. School Practices -- 13. Adults and World Literacy -- 14. Some Implications of an Ecological View Summary An introduction to the new emerging field of literacy studies. The book aims to bring recent developments together in a coherent manner, by showing how new research has contributed to the understanding of literacy practices and to the uses of literacy in everyday life Analysis Literacy Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages [230]-243 Subject Composition (Language arts) Linguistics. Literacy. Reading. LC no. 93032892 ISBN 0631190899 (alk. paper) 0631190910 (paperback: alk. paper)

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