The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy (Hardcover)

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, the evolution of conventions of reading, the social and developmental dimensions of acquiring literate competencies, and, more generally, the conceptual and cognitive dimensions of literacy as a set of social practices. Contributors to the volume are leading scholars drawn from such disciplines as linguistics, literature, history, anthropology, psychology, the neurosciences, cultural psychology, and education.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
Release date:	February 2009
First published:	2009
Editors:	David R. Olson • Nancy Torrance
Dimensions:	260 x 184 x 34mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	624
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-86220-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Literacy Promotions
LSN:	0-521-86220-5
Barcode:	9780521862202

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