| Description |
xvii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Learning to write. Putting language into writing. Reading and writing. Linguistic theories and writing. Writing and society. Teaching practical writing. Sources and context. Speech and writing. Recent history of the study of speech and writing. Contexts of speech and writing and their effects. Structures of speech and writing. Children's speech and children's writing. Sources and context. Children's speech and children's writing. Learning a new language. Ascendancy of the written language. Development of the concept of "sentence" in children's writing. Significance of early sentences. Towards the adult concept of sentences. Genre. Genre and reality. Factual genres. Narratives. Mastery of genre and its cognitive and social effects. Sources and contexts. Linguistic and conceptual development: conjoined sentence structures. Linguistic form and its cognitive implications. Linguistic and cognitive complexity. From simple to complex sentence structures. Some practical implications. Stages in the development of conjoined sentence structures. Sources and context. Expression of casuality in children's language (with Michael Rowan). Adequacy of a child's grammar. Two models of causality. Non-causal sequence. Causality and writing. Sources and context. "Errors". Convention and correction. Error analysis. Alternative mode of viewing the concept "Error". Sources and context. Questions in a social theory of literacy. Literacy in the 1980's. Form as meaning: the material aspects of literacy. Pre-literacy. Literacy and social process: the question of text. The politics of text. Prospects: literacy and cultural futures. Sources and context |
| Analysis |
Children Written communication Development |
| Notes |
First ed.: 1982 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [240]-244) and index |
| Notes |
Electronic version is available via NetLibrary |
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web |
| Subject |
English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Primary)
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| LC no. |
93015761 |
| ISBN |
0415072417 |
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