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The linguistics of literacy / edited by Pamela Downing, Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Typological studies in language ; v. 21.
- Typological studies in language, 0167-7373 ; v. 21
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Written communication.
- Oral communication.
- Language and languages--Orthography and spelling.
- Language and languages.
- Psycholinguistics.
- Literacy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (354 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume grew out of the Seventeenth Annual University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Linguistics Symposium, which was held in Milwaukee on April 8-10, 1988. The theme of the conference was the relationship between linguistics and literacy. In this volume, a selection of papers are presented which cluster around three of the major themes that developed during the conference: the linguistic differences between written and spoken genres, the relationship between orthographic systems and phonology, and the psychology of orthography. The volume concludes with a solicited paper by Walter J. Ong which dr
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Written language and spoken language compared
- pt. 2. Orthographic systems
- pt. 3. The psychology of orthography
- pt. 4. Consequences of literacy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-31310-3
- 9786613313102
- 90-272-7718-4
- OCLC:
- 756484626
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