Vernacular Literacy: A Re-evaluationClarendon Press, 1997 - 367 pages This book contains first-hand information on the history, economics, and politics surrounding literacy issues all over the world. Discussions are supported by case-studies of campaigns to promote vernacular languages, and examples of how people relate to their languages in different cultures. Providing a non-Western perspective, the contributors question traditional notions of the uses of literacy. |
Contents
Political Economic Social | 16 |
Political and Economic Aspects of Vernacular Literacy | 23 |
Social Contexts Conducive to the Vernacularization of Literacy | 82 |
Problems and Solutions | 93 |
Pedagogical Aspects of Vernacular Literacy | 142 |
PART TWO Cases from Migrant Settings in Europe East Central | 187 |
Literacy in a Pidgin Vernacular | 222 |
Standard and Vernacular Literacy | 271 |
Conclusion | 316 |
List of Contributors | 332 |
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Abstracts 1990 adult literacy Africa Arabic areas attitudes Bahasa Malaysia Basque Basque language bilingual Bislama Cameroon Cantonese cent century Chapter characters China Chinese classes colonial context contrast countries Creole cultural diacritics dialect digraphs discussed economic élite English eracy ethnic European example factors France French functional groups guage Hausa Hong Kong Igbo illiteracy illiterate immigrants important Indian initial Kenya lack learners learning letters linguistic literacy campaigns literacy programmes literacy skills literate logograms Malay Mandarin materials medium Melanesia migrants minority missionaries mother tongue motivation national language Nigeria official language oral orthography pedagogical phonemes Pidgin political population problems radio read and write Roman alphabet rural Sango Singapore social society Spanish speak speakers spoken standard Swahili Tamil Tanzania taught teachers teaching television tion Tok Pisin tone traditional Unesco Vanuatu variety vernacular language vernacular literacy vowel Wolof writing system written language
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Proceedings 1999 Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology David Doermann Limited preview - 1999 |