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9780198236351

Vernacular Literacy A Re-Evaluation

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  • ISBN13:

    9780198236351

  • ISBN10:

    0198236352

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-12-04
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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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.

Table of Contents

List of Tables
ix(2)
List of Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1(20)
R. B. Le Page
PART ONE General Issues: Political, Economic, Social, Orthographic, Pedagogical 21(166)
1. Political and Economic Aspects of Vernacular Literacy
23(59)
R. B. Le Page
2. Social Contexts Conducive to the Vernacularization of Literacy
82(11)
Lawrence D. Carrington
3. Developing Ways of Writing Vernaculars: Problems and Solutions in a Historical Perspective
93(49)
Philip Baker
4. Pedagogical Aspects of Vernacular Literacy
142(45)
Jeannine Gerbault
PART TWO Cases from Migrant Settings in Europe; East, Central, and West Africa; East, South, and South-East Asia; Pidgin- and Creole-Speaking Communities 187(129)
5. Vernacular Literacy in New Minority Settings in Europe
189(33)
Penelope Gardner-Chloros
6. Literacy in a Pidgin Vernacular
222(24)
Jean-Michel Charpentier
7. Motivations and Attitudes Influencing Vernacular Literacy: Four African Assessments
246(25)
Ralph W. Fasold
8. Tradition, Trial, and Error: Standard and Vernacular Literacy in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia
271(45)
Anna Kwan-Terry
K. K. Luke
Conclusion 316(16)
Andree Tabouret-Keller
List of Contributors 332(6)
References 338(21)
Index 359

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