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Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century: the Literary Agenda

By Wolf , Maryanne

Book information

Publisher
OUP OXFORD
Year
2016
ISBN
9780191036125, 0191036129
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11127879 bytes)
Series
Literary agenda
Pages
211 pages\211
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Literacy;Electronic books

Description

Cover; The Literary Agenda: Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century; Copyright; Series Introduction; Contents; List of Figures; 1: Introduction; Working assumptions; Structure of the book; Notes; 2: A Linguist's Tale; A linguistic primer for oral and written language; Phonology; Four tiers of sound; Morphology; Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Orthography; The linguist's tale of a bear; Notes; 3: A Child's Tale; On turning ten; Pre-reading can last a very long time; What's in a word; What's in a letter; What's in the visual cortex.;Being Literate in the 21st Century tackles some of the most difficult questions for the next generation around literacy and thought, as we continue to move into a digital culture. It explores research from multiple disciplines on what it means to be literate, and addresses the problem of universal literacy.

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