David Barton

List of John Benjamins publications in which David Barton is involved.

Title

Letter Writing as a Social Practice

Edited by David Barton and Nigel Hall

This book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing formal and informal contexts. Letters are a common text type, appearing in a wide variety of forms in most domains of life. More broadly, the… read more

[Studies in Written Language and Literacy, 9] 2000. vi, 262 pp.

Barton, David 2009 Preface. Roz Ivanič's writing and identity Why Writing Matters: Issues of access and identity in writing research and pedagogy, Carter, Awena, Theresa Lillis and Sue Parkin (eds.), pp. ix–xiii | Preface

Barton, David 2001 Foreword Multilingual Literacies: Reading and writing different worlds, Martin-Jones, Marilyn and Kathryn E. Jones (eds.), pp. xxiii–xxvi | Foreword

Barton, David and Nigel Hall 2000 1. Introduction Letter Writing as a Social Practice, Barton, David and Nigel Hall (eds.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter

Barton, David 1995 Some problems with an evolutionary view of written language The Biology of Language, Puppel, Stanislaw, pp. 19–32 | Article

Barton, David 1994 The social impact of literacy Functional Literacy: Theoretical issues and educational implications, Verhoeven, Ludo (ed.), pp. 185–198 | Article