The Many Tongues of Literacy

by Ray B. Browne

Statistics indicate that more than half the population of America is illiterate or subliterate in the conventional sense, but very literate in other media such as television, sports, and leisure time activities. But statistics can lie or tell only half a fact. Since the languages of literacy are constantly expanding and developing, it is time that American educators, and the public in general, reexamine their definitions of literacy and the media...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879725605
• ISBN13: 9780879725600
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"