The Double Perspective: Language, Literacy, and Social Relations

by David Bleich

Book Overview

Examining the relationship between language and literacy and the societal experiences that help shape it, this political and polemical book builds on the author's previous work in reader-response criticism and challenges the now dominant assumption that language is an individual transaction independent of any social context. Moving through a series of interrelated essays, David Bleich explores topics including the social psychology of men, which he...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195051734
• ISBN13: 9780195051735
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.6"