The Cambridge handbook of literacy / edited by David Olson, Nancy Torrance.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Olson, David R., 1935-

Torrance, Nancy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literacy.

Physical Description:

xxi, 601 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Contents:

Part I. Literacy as a scientific subject. The literacy episteme: from Innis to Derrida / Jens Brockmeier and David R. Olson

Part II. Literacy and language

Grammatology / Peter T. Daniels

Speech and writing / Roy Harris

The origins and co-evolution of literacy and numeracy / Stephen Chrisomalis

Are there linguistic consequences of literacy? Comparing the potentials of language use in speech and writing / Douglas Biber

Becoming a literate language user: oral and written text construction across adolescence / Ruth A. Berman and Dorit Ravid

The challenge of academic language / Catherine E. Snow and Paola Uccelli

The basic processes in reading: insights from neuroscience / Usha Goswami

Language and literacy from a cognitive neuroscience perspective / Karl Magnus Petersson, Martin Ingvar, and Alexandra Reis

Part III. Literacy and literatures. Ways of reading / Elizabeth Long

Conventions of reading / Heather Murray

Literacy, reading, and concepts of the self / Carolyn Steedman

Reading as a woman, being read as a woman / Lisbeth Larsson

Literacy and the history of science: reflections based on Chinese and other sources / Karine Chemla

Scientific literacy / Stephen P. Norris and Linda M. Phillips

Digital literacy / Teresa M. Dobson and John Willinsky

Literacy, video games, and popular culture / James Paul Gee

Part IV. Literacy and society. Ethnography of writing and reading / Brian Street

The origins of western literacy: literacy in ancient Greece and Rome / Rosalind Thomas

Literacy from late antiquity to the early middle ages, c. 300-800 ad / Nicholas Everett

Chinese literacy / Feng Wang, Yaching Tsai, and William S.-Y. Wang

The elephant in the room: language and literacy in the Arab world / Niloofar Haeri

Literacy, modernization, the intellectual community, and civil society in the western world / Frits van Holthoon

Part V. Literacy and education. The teaching of literacy skills in western Europe: an historical perspective / A.-M. Chartier

The configuration of literacy as a domain of knowledge / Liliana Tolchinsky

Literacy and Metalinguistic development / Bruce D. Homer

Cultural and developmental predispositions to literacy / Alison F. Garton and Chris Pratt

Literacy and international development: education and literacy as basic human rights / Joseph P. Farrell

Adult literacy education in industrialized nations / Thomas G. Sticht

New technologies for adult literacy and international development / Daniel A. Wagner

Literacy, literacy policy, and the school / David R. Olson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521862202

0521862205

9780521680523

0521680522

OCLC:

268547430