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This page intentionally left blank The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy ThisHandbookmarksthetransformationofthetopicofliteracyfromthenarrowerconcerns with learning to read and write to an interdisciplinary inquiry into the various forms 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,therelationshipsbetweenspeechandwriting,thehistoryofthesocialusesofwrit- ing, the evolution of conventions of reading, the social and developmental dimensions of acquiring literate competencies, and, more generally, the conceptual and cognitive dimen- sions of literacy as a set of social practices. Contributors to the volume are leading scholars drawnfromsuchdisciplinesaslinguistics,literature,history,anthropology,psychology,the neurosciences,culturalpsychology,andeducation. David R. Olson is University Professor Emeritus of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. He has written extensively on language, literacy, andcognition,includingthewidelyanthologizedarticle,“FromUtterancetoText:TheBiasof LanguageinSpeechandWriting”(1977).HisbookTheWorldonPaper(CambridgeUniversity Press,1994)hasbeentranslatedintoseverallanguages.Heisco-editorwithNancyTorranceof TheHandbookofEducationandHumanDevelopment(1996),co-editorwithMichaelColeof Technology,LiteracyandtheEvolutionofSociety:ImplicationsoftheWorkofJackGoody(2006), co-editor with Janet Astington and Paul Harris of Developing Theories of Mind (Cambridge University Press, 1988), co-editor with Nancy Torrance of Literacy and Orality (Cambridge UniversityPress,1991),andco-editorwithNancyTorranceandAngelaHildyardofLiteracy, LanguageandLearning(CambridgeUniversityPress,1985).Hismostrecentauthoredbooks are Psychological Theory and Educational Reform: How School Remakes Mind and Society (CambridgeUniversityPress,2003)andJeromeBruner:TheCognitiveRevolutioninEducational Theory(2007). Nancy Torrance has worked as a senior research officer/research associate in the Centre for Applied Cognitive Science and the International Centre for Educational Change at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. She has worked extensively with David Olson on a theory of the social development of literacy and the acquisition of literacy in young children and with Lorna Earl on the evaluation of school reform efforts in Manitoba, Ontario, and England. She is co-editor with David Olson of severalvolumes,includingOntheMakingofLiterateSocieties:LiteracyandSocialDevelopment (2001),TheHandbookofEducationandHumanDevelopment:NewModelsofLearning,Teaching andSchooling(1996),LiteracyandOrality(CambridgeUniversityPress,1991),and,withDavid Olson and Angela Hildyard, Literacy, Language and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 1985). The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy (cid:2) Edited by DAVID R. OLSON UniversityofToronto NANCY TORRANCE UniversityofToronto CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521862202 © Cambridge University Press 2009 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provision of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published in print format 2009 ISBN-13 978-0-511-50672-7 eBook (EBL) ISBN-13 978-0-521-86220-2 hardback ISBN-13 978-0-521-68052-3 paperback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of urls for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Contents ListofContributors pageix Preface xiii PART I: LITERACY AS A SCIENTIFIC SUBJECT 1 1 TheLiteracyEpisteme:FromInnistoDerrida 3 JensBrockmeierandDavidR.Olson PART II: LITERACY AND LANGUAGE 23 2 Grammatology 25 PeterT.Daniels 3 SpeechandWriting 46 RoyHarris 4 TheOriginsandCo-EvolutionofLiteracyandNumeracy 59 StephenChrisomalis 5 AreThereLinguisticConsequencesofLiteracy?ComparingthePotentials ofLanguageUseinSpeechandWriting 75 DouglasBiber 6 BecomingaLiterateLanguageUser:OralandWrittenTextConstruction acrossAdolescence 92 RuthA.BermanandDoritRavid 7 TheChallengeofAcademicLanguage 112 CatherineE.SnowandPaolaUccelli v vi CONTENTS 8 TheBasicProcessesinReading:InsightsfromNeuroscience 134 UshaGoswami 9 LanguageandLiteracyfromaCognitiveNeurosciencePerspective 152 KarlMagnusPetersson,MartinIngvar,andAlexandraReis PART III: LITERACY AND LITERATURES 183 10 WaysofReading 185 ElizabethLong 11 ConventionsofReading 200 HeatherMurray 12 Literacy,Reading,andConceptsoftheSelf 221 CarolynSteedman 13 ReadingasaWoman,BeingReadasaWoman 242 LisbethLarsson 14 LiteracyandtheHistoryofScience:ReflectionsBasedonChineseand OtherSources 253 KarineChemla 15 ScientificLiteracy 271 StephenP.NorrisandLindaM.Phillips 16 DigitalLiteracy 286 TeresaM.DobsonandJohnWillinsky 17 Literacy,VideoGames,andPopularCulture 313 JamesPaulGee PART IV: LITERACY AND SOCIETY 327 18 EthnographyofWritingandReading 329 BrianStreet 19 TheOriginsofWesternLiteracy:LiteracyinAncientGreeceandRome 346 RosalindThomas 20 LiteracyfromLateAntiquitytotheEarlyMiddleAges,c.300–800AD 362 NicholasEverett 21 ChineseLiteracy 386 FengWang,YachingTsai,andWilliamS.-Y.Wang 22 TheElephantintheRoom:LanguageandLiteracyintheArabWorld 418 NiloofarHaeri 23 Literacy,Modernization,theIntellectualCommunity,andCivilSociety intheWesternWorld 431 FritsvanHolthoon PART V: LITERACY AND EDUCATION 449 24 TheTeachingofLiteracySkillsinWesternEurope:AnHistoricalPerspective 451 A.-M.Chartier CONTENTS vii 25 TheConfigurationofLiteracyasaDomainofKnowledge 468 LilianaTolchinsky 26 LiteracyandMetalinguisticDevelopment 487 BruceD.Homer 27 CulturalandDevelopmentalPredispositionstoLiteracy 501 AlisonF.GartonandChrisPratt 28 LiteracyandInternationalDevelopment:EducationandLiteracyasBasic HumanRights 518 JosephP.Farrell 29 AdultLiteracyEducationinIndustrializedNations 535 ThomasG.Sticht 30 NewTechnologiesforAdultLiteracyandInternationalDevelopment 548 DanielA.Wagner 31 Literacy,LiteracyPolicy,andtheSchool 566 DavidR.Olson Index 577
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