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Literacy, Emotion and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll - Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language Besnier, Niko (Yale University, Connecticut)
Literacy, Emotion and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll - Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language
Besnier, Niko (Yale University, Connecticut)
In this 1995 study Niko Besnier analyses the transformation of the Polynesian community of Nukulaelae from a non-literate into a literate society using a contemporary perspective which emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context.
256 pages, 7 b/w illus. 2 maps 2 tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | August 24, 1995 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521485395 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 15 mm · 380 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Goodwin, Marjorie Harness |
| Series Editor | Irvine, Judith T. |
| Series Editor | Kuipers, Joel C. |
| Series Editor | Kulick, Don |
| Series Editor | Lucy, John |
| Series Editor | Ochs, Elinor |
| Series Editor | Schieffelin, Bambi B. |
| Series Editor | Silverstein, Michael |