The chapter argues why language has changed more rapidly in the literate part of human
evolution. It describes the invention of writing by the Sumerians, and presents an outline of …

Traditionally, literacy has been defined as having the competence to read and write.
However, in The Cambridge Handbook of Literacy, edited by Olson and Torrance, to be …

In this chapter, I discuss largely, though by no means exclusively, Far Eastern literacy.(The
Far East will be henceforth referred to simply as" the East.") And I tend to minimize the …

The equation of literacy with culture is old and frequently disparaged by modem linguists.
This disparagement is easily understood, since advocates of a link between literacy and …

Literacy is an important concern of contemporary societies. This book offers a
comprehensive survey of recent efforts to understand the nature of written language and its …

In some ways the maturational step that we begin to consider in this chapter is similar to the
neonate's entry into the linguistic dimension. It, too, has far-reaching implications; is mostly …

The literacy hypothesis was the bold claim that the cognitive and social changes observed
over time and across cultures may be traced, in large part, to changes in means of …

This essay is an engagement with a series of propositions about literacy and reading in the
United States: that large numbers of people struggle with what one might call narrative …

Presents a functional approach to reading based on EB Huey's (1908) work on the
psychology and pedagogy of reading: Reading refers to a variety of performances with …