The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy

Book Overview

This handbook marks the transformation of the topic of literacy from the narrower concerns with learning to read and write to an interdisciplinary enquiry into the various roles of writing and reading in the full range of social and psychological functions in both modern and developing societies. It does so by exploring the nature and development of writing systems, the relations between speech and writing, the history of the social uses of writing,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521680522
• ISBN13: 9780521680523
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.9" x 9.9"