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Publication details [#7247]
Olson, David R. 1981. The literate native speaker: Some intellectual consequences of the language of schooling. In Coulmas, Florian, ed. A Festschrift for native speaker. Mouton. pp. 379–389. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
A study of the changes in linguistic usage brought about by the formal schooling of written language. It is shown that the differentiation of sentence meaning vs. speaker's meaning is tied to literacy.