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Thompson, David W., Ed.; And Others – 1983
The 33 essays that make up this volume examine the history of literature in performance from five perspectives: (1) language, (2) popular culture, (3) teaching, (4) theory, and (5) entertainment. The essays in the first section explore the basic perspective of oral performance as a factor in the development of languages themselves and their…
Descriptors: Authors, Classical Literature, Communication (Thought Transfer), Diachronic Linguistics
Download full textKazemek, Francis E. – 1992
The views and practices of literacy advocates who focus on workplace literacy foster an impoverished understanding of adult literacy and, ultimately, life itself. They reduce literacy to something that is "functional" in the reductive sense of serving someone else's ends as a functionary. A "functionally literate" person is a consumer of someone…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Functional Literacy, Functional Reading
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