Orality and Literacy: From

Gee, James Paul

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ERIC Number: EJ399921

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1989

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Orality and Literacy: From "The Savage Mind" to "Ways With Words."

Gee, James Paul

Journal of Education, v171 n1 p39-60 1989

Reviews anthropological studies and demonstrates how the term "literate" has replaced the term "civilized" and how literacy is currently used to distinguish between different social groups in modern, technological societies. Discusses how teachers of English are actually teaching a set of oral and written social practices associated with the standard dialect of English. (FMW)

Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Elementary Secondary Education, Hidden Curriculum, Language Acquisition, Literacy, Literacy Education, Literature Reviews, Oral Language, Social Dialects, Social Differences, Sociolinguistics

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Information Analyses

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Audience: Researchers

Language: English

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Note: Special issue with title "Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Essays by James Paul Gee"; reprinted from the TESOL Quarterly, v20 n4, 1986.