Vernacular Literacy: A Re-evaluation: No.13 (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics) - Softcover

Tabouret-Keller, Andree

9780198237136: Vernacular Literacy: A Re-evaluation: No.13 (Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198237138 ISBN 13: 9780198237136

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1997

Illiteracy problems are worldwide, and growing. Political and economic factors are often in conflict over which language to use for basic education and how it should be taught. There is increasing pressure on the resources available for using literacy in coping with the rapid population increase, the spread of disease, and poor development. The editors and contributors to this volume are members of The International Group for the Study of Language Standardization and the Vernacularization of Literacy (IGLSVL), with unrivalled direct personal experience of literacy and language problems in the second half of the twentieth century. The contributors take the UNESCO publication, The Use of Vernacular Languages in Education, as their starting point. Published in 1953, this work was optimistic about the future of literacy. The contributors assess the nature and significance of the events that have taken place since then, providing a global overview. The discussions are supported by case-studies of campaigns to promote vernacular languages and examples of how people relate to their languages in different cultures. Most importantly, they question traditional notions of, and provide a non-Western perspective on, the uses and value of literacy.

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"The book does an outstanding job....It is highly recommended reading for anyone working in the area of vernacular literacy and/or education today."--Language in Society "The book does an outstanding job....It is highly recommended reading for anyone working in the area of vernacular literacy and/or education today."--Language in Society "The book does an outstanding job....It is highly recommended reading for anyone working in the area of vernacular literacy and/or education today."--Language in Society "The book does an outstanding job....It is highly recommended reading for anyone working in the area of vernacular literacy and/or education today."--Language in Society

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