Linguistics and Literacy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • William Frawley

      Pages 1-3

3. Linguistics and Writing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. The Literate Writes and the Nonliterate Chants: Written Language and Ritual Communication in Sociolinguistic Perspective

      • F. Niyi Akinnaso

      Pages 7-36

   3. The Myth of Orality and Literacy

      • Deborah Tannen

      Pages 37-50

   4. Soviet Psycholinguistics: Implications for Teaching of Writing

      • James Thomas Zebroski

      Pages 51-63

   5. Universal Grammar and Composition: Relativization, Complementation, and Quantification

      • William Frawley

      Pages 65-90

   6. Relationships: What Did I Write? What Did I Draw?

      • ViLora Lyn Zalusky

      Pages 91-124

   7. The Pragmatic Structure of Rhetorical Maturity in the Sciences

      • Mackie J-V Blanton

      Pages 125-143

   8. The Function of a Grammatical Alternation in 14 Surgical Reports

      • Catherine Pettinari

      Pages 145-185

4. Computers and Literacy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. Computerized Aids to Writing

      • Raoul N. Smith

      Pages 189-208

   3. Computer-Ease: A Twentieth-Century Literacy Emergent

      • Carolyn Marvin, Mark Winther

      Pages 209-237

   4. A Computer-Aided Study of Confusion in Latin Morphology

      • Gerald R. Culley

      Pages 239-254

5. Linguistics and Reading

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255

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   2. Spelling, Reading, Language Variation

      • Ralph W. Fasold

      Pages 257-267

   3. Linguistics and/or Reading or is Applied Linguistics a Caveat Emptor Technology?

      • Richard L. Venezky

      Pages 269-283

   4. The Development of Verbal Reasoning: Pragmatic, Schematic and Operational Aspects

      • Judith Orasanu, Sylvia Scribner

      Pages 285-313

   5. Teaching Reading in the Inner City

      • L. Arena

      Pages 315-324

   6. Early Reading Experiences: Some Linguistic Perspectives on Parent/Child Interaction in Book Sharing Situations

      • Rosalind Williams, Diane Chapman, Ellen Martin-Huff

      Pages 325-357

William Frawley University of Delaware Several years ago, I performed a kind of perverse experiment. I showed, to several linguistic colleagues, the following comment made by Walker Percy (in The Message in the Bottle): language is too important a problem to be left only to linguists. The linguists' responses were peculiarly predictable: "What does Percy know? He's a mercenary outsider, a novelist, a psychiatrist! How can he say something like that?" Now, it should be known that the linguists who said such things in response were ardent followers of the linguistic vogue: to cross disciplines at whim for the sake of explanation---any explanation. It was odd, to say the least: Percy was damned by the very people who agreed with him! Fortunately, the papers in this book, though radically interdisciplinary, do not fall prey to the kind of hypocrisy described above. The papers (from the Third Delaware Symposium on Language Studies) address the question of literacy---a linguistic problem too important to be left only to linguists--but many of the authors are not linguists at all, and those who are linguists have taken the care to see beyond the parochialism of a single discipline. The subsequent papers have been written by psychologists, linguists, anthropologists, computer scientists, and language teachers to explain the problem of how humans develop, comprehend, and produce extended pieces of informa­ tion (discourses and texts).

• ESL
• English
• care
• computer
• experiment
• grammar
• language
• linguistics
• literacy
• university

• University of Delaware, Newark, USA

  Wiliam Frawley

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