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Publication details [#48647]

Moore, Leslie C. 2008. Body, text, and talk in Maroua Fulbe Qur'anic schooling. Text & Talk 28 (5) : 643–665.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

education | literacy | religion | socialization

Language as a subject

Arabic | Fulfulde

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/TEXT/html

Annotation

Proposing a language socialization perspective on Qur'anic schooling, this paper describes Fulbe children's acquisition of Qur'anic orality and literacy as a gradual multimodal transfer of responsibility for rendering the sacred text.