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The linguistics of literacy / edited by Pamela Downing, Susan D. Lima and Michael Noonan.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Downing, Pamela.
Lima, Susan D.
Noonan, Michael (Michael P.)
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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