ISBN:
9781136858109
,
1136858105
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (vi, 314 pages)
,
illustrations.
Series Statement:
World of writing
Parallel Title:
Print version Literacy, narrative and culture
DDC:
302.2244
Keywords:
Literacy
;
Language and culture
;
Language and culture
;
Literacy
;
Language and culture
;
Literacy
;
PSYCHOLOGY ; Social Psychology
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
"An important contribution to the multi-disciplinary study of literacy, narrative and culture, this work argues that literacy is perhaps best described as an ensemble of socially and historically embedded activities of cultural practices. It suggests viewing written language, producing and distributing, deciphering and interpreting signs, are closely related to other cultural practices such as narrative and painting. The papers of the first and second parts illustrate this view in contexts that range from the pre-historical beginnings of tracking signs' in hunter-gatherer cultures, and the emergence of modern literate traditions in Europe in the 17th to 19th century, to the future of electronically mediated writing in times of the post-Gutenberg galaxy. The chapters of the third present results of recent research in developmental and educational psychology. Contributions by leading experts in the field make the point that there is no theory and history of writing that does not presuppose a theory of culture and social development. At the same time, it demonstrates that every theory and history of culture must unavoidably entail a theory and history of writing and written culture. This book brings together perspectives on literacy from psychology, linguistics, history and sociology of literature, philosophy, anthropology, and history of art. It addresses these issues in plain language - not coded in specialized jargon - and addresses a multi-disciplinary forum of scholars and students of literacy, narrative and culture". --Amazon
Description / Table of Contents:
Children's conceptions of name: a study on metalinguistic awareness in Italian children / Ilaria Grazzani Gavazzi and Veronica OrnaghiThe distinction between graphic system and orthographic system and their pertinence for understanding the acquisition of orthography / Emilia Ferreiro -- Children's analysis of oral and written words / Sofía A. Vernon -- Young children's "clever misunderstandings" about print / Janette Pelletier -- Literacy and metalinguistic thought: development through knowledge construction and cultural mediation / Bruce D. Homer -- Making new or making do: epistemological, normative and pragmatic aspects of reading a text / Linda M. Phillips.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: What is a culture of literacy? / Jens Brockmeier and David R. OlsonThe literacy episteme: the rise and fall of a cultural discourse / Jens Brockmeier -- Literacy and the future of writing: an integrational perspective / Roy Harris -- The construction of mind and self in an interpretive community / Carol Fleisher Feldman -- Hunting, tracking and reading / J. Edward Chamberlin -- Narrative distancing: a foundation of literacy / Jerome Bruner -- Letters and pictures in seventeenth-century education / John H. Astington -- Painters and literacy / William Blissett -- "Dumb significants" and early modern English definition / Ian Lancashire -- The spread of culture: subscription libraries in France in the nineteenth century / Graham Falconer -- The essay as a literary and academic form: closed gate or open door? / Margaret Procter -- Writing as a form of quotation / David R. Olson and Deepthi Kamawar
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Print version record
Permalink
