Linguistics and Literacy
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
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TOPICS IN LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS Series Editors:
Albert Valdman and Thomas A. Sebeok Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL BILINGUAL EDUCATION
The Role of the Vernacular
Edited by Beverly Hartford, Albert Valdman, and Charles R. Foster
LINGUISTICS AND LITERACY Edited by William Frawley
Linguistics and Literacy Edited by
William Frawley University of Delaware Newark, Delaware
PLENUM PRESS. NEW YORK AND LONDON
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Delaware Symposium on Language Studies (3rd: 1981: University of Delaware) Linguistics and literacy. (Topics in language and linguistics) Proceedings of the Third Delaware Symposium on Language Studies, held October 15-17, 1981 at the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Written communication - Congresses. 2. Linguistics - Data processing- Congresses. 3. Reading-Congresses. 4. Language and languages-Study and teaching-Congresses. 5. Literacy-Congresses. I. Frawley, William, 1953. II. Title. III. Series. P211.D4 1981 001.54'3 82-18535
ISBN-13: 978-1-4615-9304-1 DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4615-9302-7
e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4615-9302-7
Proceedings of the Third Delaware Symposium on Language Studies, held October 15-17, 1981, at the University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.
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CONTENTS
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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LINGUISTICS AND WRITING The Literate Writes and the NonLiterate Chants: Written Language and Ritual Communication in Sociolinguistic Perspective . . . . . . . . . . F. Niyi Akinnaso The Myth of Orality and Literacy . . . . . . . . . . . Deborah Tannen Soviet Psycho1inguistics: Implications for Teaching of Writing. James Thomas Zebroski Universal Grammar and Composition: Re1ativization, Complementation, and Quantification . . . . . . • William Frawley Relationships: What Did I Write? What Did I Draw? . . ... ViLora Lyn Za1usky
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The Pragmatic Structure of Rhetorical Maturity in the Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Mackie J-V Blanton
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The Function of a Grammatical Alternation in 14 Surgical Reports • • . . . . • Catherine Pettinari
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COMPUTERS AND LITERACY Computerized Aids to Writing . . . . . . Raoul N. Smith
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Computer-Ease: A Twentieth-Century Literacy Emergent . . . . . . Carolyn Marvin and Mark Winther
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A Computer-Aided Study of Confusion in Latin Morphology . • ....... . Gerald R. Culley
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LINGUISTICS AND READING Spelling, Reading, Language Variation. . . Ralph W. Faso1d Linguistics andlor Reading or Is Applied Linguistics a Caveat Emptor Technology? Richard L. Venezky The Devel
