Book Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Gracias/Acknowledgments; Foreword; Prologue; 1 No Man's Land; 2 The Cobden Glossaries; 3 Some Laugh, Others Frown; 4 Making It Legal: The Social Construction of Hybrid Alphabets; Epilogue: A Game as Old as the Alphabet?; References; Author Index; Subject Index
Summary
Illegal Alphabets and Adult Biliteracy --based on four years of intensive fieldwork in a small rural community in Southern Illinois--is a landmark work in the area of adult literacy, combining insights from linguistics, anthropology, literacy studie
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 118-123) and index
