Writing Development: An interdisciplinary view: 6 (Studies in Written Language and Literacy) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027217998 ISBN 13: 9789027217998

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1997

Synopsis

This volume presents a selection of papers presented at a series of three workshops organized by the Network “Written Language and Literacy” as launched by the European Science Foundation. The main topics making up Writing Development are: (1) Writing and literacy acquisition: Links between speech and writing, with contributions by David R. Olson, Claire Blanche-Benveniste, Emilia Ferreiro, Ruth Berman, Liliana Tolchinsky & Ana Teberosky; (2) Writing and reading in time and culture, with contributions by Collette Sirat, Françoise Desbordes, Harmut Günther, Peter Koch, & Jean Hébrard: (3) Written language competence in monolingual and bilingual contexts, with contributions by Michel Fayol & Serge Mouchon, Georges Lüdi, & Ludo Verhoeven; (4) Writing systems, brain structures and languages: A neurolinguistic view, with contributions by Giuseppe Cossu, Heinz Wimmer & Uta Frith, & Brian Butterworth. The volume heads off with an extensive introduction “Studying writing and writing acquisition today: A multidisciplinary view”.

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Synopsis

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume focuses on writing development. Topics covered include: the psycholinguistics of writing and literacy acquisition; the cultural and historical aspects of reading and writing; and the neurolinguistic view of writing systems.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027217998
• ISBN 13: 9789027217998
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Pontecorvo Clotilde