Ancient Literacies
meant to be discussed and consulted extensively on the stone, though this might be necessary only for a relatively elite group o ...
processes of those so affected. The sponsors of that hypothesis produced a series of influential papers and books that explored ...
CONCLUSION: LITERACY AND LITERACIES IN ATHENS To return to the problem of functional literacy, what it means at any point, and h ...
potential significance of learning to read and write, they have provided overwhelming evidence to show that children’s thinking ...
Proceedings of an International Conference Celebrating 2500 Years since the Birth of Democracy in Greece, Held at the American S ...
those sponsored by UNESCO in the 1950s failed to produce the enduring effects that had been expected. Literacy, it seems, is not ...
Jordan, David R. 2003. ‘‘A Letter from the Banker Pasion.’’ In Jordan and Traill 2003: 23 39 (Appendix A: Corpus of Personal Let ...
CRITICIZING THE CRITICS In his critique of Goody and Watt (1968), Halverson (1992) claimed that ‘‘the ‘cognitive’ claims of the ...
Rodrı ́guezSomolinos, Helena. 1996. ‘‘The Commercial Transaction of the Pech Maho Lead: A New Interpretation.’’ZPE111: 74 8. Sae ...
word awareness. In fact, even the great Samuel Johnson, the maker of the first English dictionary, lacked an adequate notion of ...
3 Literacy or Literacies in Rome? Greg Woolf A great deal is now agreed about Roman uses of writing. It is certain that relative ...
required them to break words into the phonological constituents repre- sented by letters of the alphabet. A simple example would ...
possessed them, by the methods and institutions through which they were imparted and acquired, by the languages and kinds of tex ...
‘‘A cat,’’ a child may make a scribble; if asked to write ‘‘Two cats,’’ they may make two squiggles, and so on. But if asked to ...
Aramaic on clay tablets and papyrus. The Iranian elite themselves were not particularly defined by their facility with letters.^ ...
1997, 24), and most writers have adopted the later terminology, thereby distinguishing what is called ‘‘the illocutionary force’ ...
be told to show the democratizing potential of writing. The inclusion in muchpopularislegislation of clauses requiring its promi ...
339). Quoted speech, too, is closed, not open to negotiation and revision; it is fixed, it is not addressed to us, it is overhea ...
by these strategies of control to those subjects who were able to master writing or gain access to those who had. This is a very ...
‘‘Yes, today,’’ she said. ‘‘I lunched with him. We walked in the Park.’’ She stopped. They had walked in the Park. A thrush had ...
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