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Publication details [#4534]

Heath, Shirley Brice. 1982. Protean shapes in literacy events: Ever-shifting oral and literate traditions. In Tannen, Deborah F., ed. Spoken and written language: Exploring orality and literacy. Ablex Publishing Company. pp. 91–117.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

black | literacy | oral vs. written

Annotation

An analysis of speech behavior in Trackton (a working-class all-Black community of the Carolinas) showing that the dichotomy between oral and literate societies cannot be handled rigidly.