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Publication details [#18927]

John-Steiner, Vera, Carolyn P. Panofsky and Larry W. Smith. 1994. Sociocultural Approaches to Language and Literacy: An Interactionist Perspective. Cambridge University Press. vii + 402 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
context | functional constraint | interactional sociolinguistics | literacy | mediation | orality
Language as a subject
Language of the deaf | oral language varieties | spoken language varieties

Annotation

A wide range of essays on language and literacy, including even deaf language and other semiotic systems, organized around three key concepts: context, mediational processes and functional systems.

Reviewed by

Gee, James Paul. 1996. Review of $Sociocultural Approaches to Language and Literacy: An Interactionist Perspective.
Pontecorvo, Clotilde. 1997. Review of $Sociocultural Approaches to Language and Literacy: An Interactionist Perspective.