Literacy, Emotion and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll
Niko Besnier
In this study Niko Besnier analyzes the transformation of the Polynesian community of Nukulaelae from a nonliterate into a literate society, using a contemporary perspective that emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context. His case study, which has implications for understanding literacy in other societies, illuminates the relationship between norm and practice, between structure and agency, and between group and individual.
Book of the Studies in the Social & Cultural Foundations of Language series
- ISBN: 0521485398
- ISBN-13: 9780521485395
- Author : Niko Besnier
- Editors : Judith Irvine and Bambi Schieffelin
- Language : English
- Format: Paperback - Search for other formats
- Publication Date: 6/1/2002
- Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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