Written Language & Literacy

Volume 6, Issue 1 (2003)

2003.  iv, 130
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
Articles
Form and function of emotive pictorial signs in casual letter writing
Kuniyoshi Kataoka
1–29
Letter-writing in French Louisiana: Interpreting variable spelling conventions, 1685–1840
Sylvie Dubois
31–70
Mirror-image discrimination among nonliterate, monoliterate, and biliterate Tamil subjects
Eric Pederson
71–91
“Written language but easily to use!” Perceptions of continuity and discontinuity between written/oral modes in the Lebanese context of biliteracy and diglossia
Ingo Thonhauser
93–109
Book Reviews
Review of “What counts as literacy: Challenging the school standard” by Margaret A. Gallego & Sandra Hollingsworth (eds.)
Carol V. Lloyd
111–116
Review of “Why eat green cucumber at the time of dying? Exploring the links between women’s literacy and development — a Nepal perspecti” by Anna Robinson-Pant
Alan Rogers
116–118
Review of “Global literacies and the World-Wide Web” by Gail E. Harwisher & Cynthia L. Selfe (eds.)
Colin Lankshear
118–123
Review of “Non-standard orthography and non-standard speech. (Special issue, Journal of Sociolinguistics, 4:4)” by Alexandra Jaffe (ed.)
Stef Slembrouck
123–127
Review of “Letter writing as a social practice” by David Barton & Nigel Hall (eds.)
Margaretta Jolly
127–130