Literacy as Involvement : the Acts of Writers, Readers, and Texts.

Literacy as Involvement : the Acts of Writers, Readers, and Texts.

In Literacy as Involvement, Deborah Brandt examines the cultural and social roots of the acts of reading and writing. The book asks, for example, whether literacy is a natural growth of or a radical shift from orality. It questions the contrary views that literacy is either the learning of the conve...

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Main Author: Brandt, Deborah
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Written communication.
Literacy.
Discourse analysis.
Discourse analysis
Literacy
Written communication
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Strong Text: Opacity, Autonomy, and Anonymity; 2. ""What Now?"" The Processes of Involvement; 3. The Language of Involvement; 4. Rhetorics of Involvement; 5. ""The Ties of the Moment"": Literacy as Involvement; Notes; Works Cited; Index; Author Bio; Back Cover.

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