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Publication details [#18451]
Besnier, Niko. 1995. Literacy, emotion, and authority: Reading and writing on a Polynesian atoll. (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Languages 17). Cambridge University Press. xx + 234 pp. 
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
A contribution to the study of literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultural context, approaching various literacy events in detail from a comparative-ethnographic and event-centred perspective, before considering differences and tensions across literacy practices.