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Author | : Joshua A. Fishman |
Publisher | : Multilingual Matters |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2010-06-28 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1847694780 |
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In this major new text, Joshua Fishman charts the rise of vernacular literacy in Europe, and the major social, economic, religious, political, demographic, educational and philosophical changes that attended it. Following the story up until the present day, the book examines the people who became leaders of the growth of vernacular literacy in Europe, and looks at how European colonizers viewed vernacular literacy efforts in their current and former colonies. Looking forward, Fishman discusses how new technology affects vernacular literacy both now and in the present, and whether developments in voice and visual media mean that vernacular literacy will be less important to future generations than it is to us. ‘European Vernacular Literacy’ is not only a review of well-known facts and theories of the rise of vernacular literacy in Europe, but an attempt to reintegrate and rethink them along new and provocative lines, meaning that the book will be of interest not only to students of literacy and history but also to scholars interested in Fishman’s latest contribution to sociolinguistics.
Author | : International Group for the Study of Language Standardization and the Vernacularization of Literacy |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780198237136 |
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This book contains first-hand information on the history, economics, and politics surrounding literacy issues all over the world. Discussions are supported by case-studies of campaigns to promote vernacular languages, and examples of how people relate to their languages in different cultures. Providing a non-Western perspective, the contributors question traditional notions of the uses of literacy.
Author | : R.A. Houston |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2014-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317879260 |
Download Literacy in Early Modern Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The new edition of this important, wide-ranging and extremely useful textbook has been extensively re-written and expanded. Rab Houston explores the importance of education, literacy and popular culture in Europe during the period of transition from mass illiteracy to mass literacy. He draws his examples for all over the continent; and concentrates on the experience of ordinary men and women, rather than just privileged and exceptional elites.
Author | : Michèle Goyens |
Publisher | : Leuven University Press |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789058672865 |
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Author | : Akshya Saxena |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2022-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0691223149 |
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How English has become a language of the people in India—one that enables the state but also empowers protests against it Against a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today. A comparative study of three centuries of English literature and media in India, this original and provocative book tells the story of English in India as a tale not of imperial coercion, but of a people’s language in a postcolonial democracy. Focusing on experiences of hearing, touching, remembering, speaking, and seeing English, Akshya Saxena delves into a previously unexplored body of texts from English and Hindi literature, law, film, visual art, and public protests. She reveals little-known debates and practices that have shaped the meanings of English in India and the Anglophone world, including the overlooked history of the legislation of English in India. She also calls attention to how low castes and minority ethnic groups have routinely used this elite language to protest the Indian state. Challenging prevailing conceptions of English as a vernacular and global lingua franca, Vernacular English does nothing less than reimagine what a language is and the categories used to analyze it.
Author | : Inger Larsson |
Publisher | : Brepols Publishers |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Between 1150 and 1400 Sweden was transformed from a society which was predominantly reliant on oral communication into a society which increasingly deployed writing. Latin, the traditional language of government and records, was gradually replaced by vernacular Swedish. The watershed moment in this process was the drafting of national and town laws in the 1350s, an event which established Swedish as the language of the judiciary and judicial records. From this period written documentation was gradually integrated into legal procedure. Pragmatic Literacy argues that the Crown, the expanding bureaucracy, the editing of the laws in Swedish, and the laws' demands for written documentation in everyday transactions were the main driving forces behind the development in medieval Sweden of lay literacy for practical purposes. The book demonstrates how the early use of writing by the royal administration and the writing of provincial laws in Swedish created centres of literacy from which literate ways of thinking and acting spread both geographically and socially. It further illustrates how literacy moved beyond the confines of the clerical elite, by exploring how different members of the laity adopted pragmatic literacy for private purposes. Pragmatic Literacy thus traces the history of pragmatic literacy in Sweden through the lens of the judicial and administrative archive. Inger Larsson is professor of Swedish Language at the Department of Scandinavian Languages, StockholmUniversity.
Author | : Rosamond McKitterick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 1992-04-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521428965 |
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This book investigates the importance of literacy in early medieval Europe in a number of different societies between c. 400 and c. 1000.
Author | : István György Tóth |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2000-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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The key aspect of this volume is to place Hungary on the map of European literacy rates over the whole period between the initial stimuli of Renaissance and Reformation and the developed, state-organized educational systems of the later 19th century. Toth's work is a broad international comparative analysis, concentrating on the long-term development of literacy rates and the use of written and oral culture in early modern societies. An examination is provided of elementarey schools and their teachers, as well as book reading among peasants and noblemen throughout the 16th to 19th centuries in Hungary. Significant sections are included on the development of libraries during the period and on the use of different languages, particularly Latin. By way of illustration examples are taken of village life, legal and administrative issues and the clergy to contribute to major debates in the field of language, literacy, linguistics and social history.
Author | : T. Kamusella |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 1140 |
Release | : 2008-12-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230583474 |
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This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The analysis is set against the earlier political and ideological history of these languages, and the panorama of the emergence and political uses of other languages of the region.
Author | : Reuben Makayiko Chirambo |
Publisher | : Rodopi |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9401209375 |
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Reading Contemporary African Literature brings together scholarship on, critical debates about, and examples of reading African literature in all genres – poetry, fiction, and drama including popular culture. The anthology offers studies of African literature from interdisciplinary perspectives that employ sociological, historical, and ethnographic besides literary analysis of the literatures. It has assembled critical and researched essays on a range of topics, theoretical and empirical, by renowned critics and theorists of African literature that evaluate and provide examples of reading African literature that should be of interest to academics, researchers, and students of African literature, culture, and history amongst other subjects. Some of the essays examine authors that have received little or no attention to date in books on recent African literature. These essays provide new insights and scholarship that should broaden and deepen our understanding and appreciation of African literature.