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Stubbs, Michael. 1980. Language and literacy: The sociolinguistics of reading and writing. Routledge and Kegan Paul. xii + 188 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English

Annotation

S. attempts to evaluate and integrate the previously incoherent findings about literacy, and to relate reading and writing to the communicative function that written language serves in our society. The topics dealt with include the primacy of spoken or written language, the relationship between spelling and society, the functions of written language, and explanations of reading failure.