Linguistics and Literacy

William Frawley University of Delaware Several years ago, I performed a kind of perverse experiment. I showed, to several linguistic colleagues, the following comment made by Walker Percy (in The Message in the Bottle): language is too important a problem to be left only to linguists. The linguists&...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Frawley, William (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1982, 1982
Edition:1st ed. 1982
Series:Topics in Language and Linguistics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Linguistics and Writing
  • The Literate Writes and the NonLiterate Chants: Written Language and Ritual Communication in Sociolinguistic Perspective
  • The Myth of Orality and Literacy
  • Soviet Psycholinguistics: Implications for Teaching of Writing
  • Universal Grammar and Composition: Relativization, Complementation, and Quantification
  • Relationships: What Did I Write? What Did I Draw?
  • The Pragmatic Structure of Rhetorical Maturity in the Sciences
  • The Function of a Grammatical Alternation in 14 Surgical Reports
  • Computers and Literacy
  • Computerized Aids to Writing
  • Computer-Ease: A Twentieth-Century Literacy Emergent
  • A Computer-Aided Study of Confusion in Latin Morphology
  • Linguistics and Reading
  • Spelling, Reading, Language Variation
  • Linguistics and/or Reading or Is Applied Linguistics a Caveat Emptor Technology?
  • The Development of Verbal Reasoning: Pragmatic, Schematic and Operational Aspects
  • Teaching Reading in the Inner City
  • Early Reading Experiences: Some Linguistic Perspectives on Parent/Child Interaction in Book Sharing Situations
  • A Propositional Analysis of Spanish Language Texts
  • Second-Language Literacy
  • Strategic Interaction from Texts: Converting Written Discourse into Spoken Conversation
  • Word Frequency and Contextual Richness in ESL Word Identification
  • Some Reflections on Error Analysis in the Speech of Near-Bilinguals whose Mother Tongue is Italian
  • Non-Native Speakers of English and their Composition Abilities: A Review and Analysis
  • French Verb Forms Simplified
  • Discourse Content Structures in Beginning Spanish Learners