Literacy

Jenny Cook-Gumperz
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“Theorizing that proclaims the superiority of literacy over orality, rather than the differences between them, has a disabling effect on 800 million illiterates of the world who are thereby branded as second-class citizens” ( D. P. Pattanayak 1991: 105).

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