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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. |
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