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Literacy, Emotion and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language) Book

Using a contemporary perspective that emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context, this study analyzes the transformation of the Polynesian community of Nukulaelae from a nonliterate into a literate society.Read More

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    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.

  • 0521485398
  • 9780521485395
  • Niko Besnier
  • 24 August 1995
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
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