Cross-cultural perspectives on literacy

Street, Brian

doi:10.1075/swll.1.08str

In:Functional Literacy: Theoretical issues and educational implications
Edited by Ludo Verhoeven
[Studies in Written Language and Literacy 1] 1994
► pp. 95–112

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Cross-cultural perspectives on literacy

Brian Street

Published online: 14 April 1994

https://doi.org/10.1075/swll.1.08str

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2025. Authorial Journeys of Adivasi (Indigenous) and Denotified Tribal Youth in India: Re-Centering Narratives Made Invisible From School Spaces. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice 74:1 ► pp. 350 ff.

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Hikida, Michiko, Katharine Chamberlain, Susan Tily, Anne Daly-Lesch, Jayce R. Warner & Diane L. Schallert

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Coronel-Molina, Serafín M. & Beth L. Samuelson

2017. Language contact and translingual literacies. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 38:5 ► pp. 379 ff.

Davis, Kathryn A.

2014. Engaged language policy and practices. Language Policy 13:2 ► pp. 83 ff.

Duncheon, Julia C. & William G. Tierney

2014. Examining College Writing Readiness. The Educational Forum 78:3 ► pp. 210 ff.

Eidson, Diana

2013. The Celsus Library at Ephesus: Spatial Rhetoric, Literacy, and Hegemony in the Eastern Roman Empire. Advances in the History of Rhetoric 16:2 ► pp. 189 ff.

Eidson, Diana

2013. The Celsus Library at Ephesus: Spatial Rhetoric, Literacy, and Hegemony in the Eastern Roman Empire. Advances in the History of Rhetoric 16:2 ► pp. 189 ff.

Evans, Karen & Edmund Waite

2010. Stimulating the innovation potential of ‘routine’ workers through workplace learning. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research 16:2 ► pp. 243 ff.

Walther, Gerrit, Merio Scattola, Ulrich Pfisterer, Georg Satzinger, Saskia Wiedner, Sabine Meine, Sven Externbrink, Reinhold Reith, Georg Stöger, Horst Carl, Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger, Ulrich Hufeld, Sibylle Appuhn-Radtke, Wolfgang E. J. Weber, Robert von Friedeburg, Hans-Joachim König, Susanne Rode-Breymann, Markus Meumann, Stefan Rinke, Mark Hengerer, Katrin Keller, Rainer Babel, Gudrun Gersmann, Wolfgang Schmale, Rolf Reichardt, Dieter Langewiesche, Stefanie Lieb, Edith Koller, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Christine Siegert, Martin Gierl, Steffen Schlinker, Iris Gareis, Hendrikje Mautner, Achim Mittag, Martin Otto, Hans-Peter Haferkamp, Martin Gabriel, Thomas Schirren, Thomas Synofzik, Mariacarla Gadebusch-Bondio, Wolfgang Behringer, Matthias Tischer, Ignacio Czeguhn, Ulrike Müßig, Onno Poppinga, Rebekka von Mallinckrodt, Wolfgang Altgeld, Martin Wrede, Thomas Töpfer, Axel Flügel, Klaus Wolf, Hans-Joachim König, Susanna Layh, Roland Kanz, Günter Butzer, Manuela Günter, Inge Kroppenberg, Dennis F. Mahoney, Frank Büttner, Andreas Eichhorn, Christoph Meinel, Peter Walter, Renko Geffarth, Georg Eckert, Konrad Schneider, Josef Ehmer, Michael Beck, Alexander Weber, Stefan Schweizer, Jürgen Henkel, Jennifer Wasmuth, Jan Willem Veluwenkamp, Hans-Heinrich Nolte, Elena Marasinova, Steffi Bahro, Andreas Bingener, Thomas Bremer, Werner Troßbach, Wolfgang Friedrich, Heiner Lück, Peter Burschel, Wolfgang Seidenspinner, Walter Sparn, Friederike Nüssel, Friedrich Wilhelm Graf, Peter Piasecki, Margarete Zimmermann, Hans Körner, Michael Fessner, Gloria Sanz Lafuente, Markus A. Denzel, Claus Priesner, Andrea Griesebner, Rosa Costa, Rainer Schöller, Anke te Heesen, Regine Mathias, Rebecca Grotjahn, Christoph Deupmann, Stefan Jordan, Kai Bremer, Hubert Moßburger, Jörg Vögele, Dietrich Erben, Staffan Müller-Wille, Gottfried Schiemann, Silvia Serena Tschopp, Edith Saurer, Gisela Wilbertz, Stefan Reichmuth, Johannes Dillinger, Thomas Sing, Peter W. Marx, Beate Agnes Schmidt, Michael North, Silvia Carola Dobler, Bernadette Malinowski, Martin Löhnig, Rainer Brunner, Christoph Kampmann, Carolyn Dougherty, Christoph Bartels, Marcus Popplow, Detlev Ellmers, Eckhard Schinkel, Axel Bayer, Sonja Kinzler, Rita Voltmer, Heiko Laß, Wolfgang Uwe Eckart, Stefan Gorißen, Kim Siebenhüner, Philipp Robinson Rössner, Mark Häberlein, Uwe Meiners, Carsten Goehrke, Stéphanie Chapuis-Després, Martin Laube, Roman Köster, Ulrich Troitzsch, Harald Haarmann, Helmut Bley, Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer, Heiko Frese, Clemens Zimmermann, Marion Hiller, Volker Leppin, Nanny Kim, Dirk Niefanger, Jens Bruning, Ingrid Lohmann, Andreas Rutz, Paul Richard Blum, Katharina Weikl, Eva Brinkschulte, Werner Röcke, Lothar Vogel, Peer Schmidt, Hubert Weitensfelder, R. Johanna Regnath, Thomas Maissen, Friedrich Steinle, Michael Wagner, Christoph Müller, Wilhelm Brauneder, Thomas Beck, John Hattendorf, Helmut Holzhey, Helmut Zander, Christian Möller, Johann Schneider, Birgit Pelzer-Reith, Rudolf Holbach, Tobias Sarx, Alexander Kästner, Arno Strohmeyer, Peter Collin, Daniela Siebe, Matthias Asche, Philippe Hamou, Sicco Lehmann-Brauns, Cornelia Aust, Arne Karsten, Ekkehard Kraft, Camilla Bork, Claudia Jarzebowski, Klaus Antoni, Christian Mathieu, Florian Freitag, Andreas Dix, Kirsten Rüther, Marion Stange, Reinhard Wendt, Jan Lucassen, Leo Lucassen, Klaus Beyrer & Karin Gludovatz

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Durkin, Kathy

2008. The Middle Way: East Asian Master's Students' Perceptions of Critical Argumentation in U.K. Universities. Journal of Studies in International Education 12:1 ► pp. 38 ff.

Kendrick, Maureen E. & Hizzaya Hissani

2007. Letters, Imagined Communities, and Literate Identities: Perspectives from Rural Ugandan Women. Journal of Literacy Research 39:2 ► pp. 195 ff.

Levinson, Martin P.

2007. Literacy in English Gypsy Communities: Cultural Capital Manifested as Negative Assets. American Educational Research Journal 44:1 ► pp. 5 ff.

Doyle, John

2006. Postmodernism and the approach to writing in Irish primary education. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy 6:2 ► pp. 123 ff.

James, Nalita & Hugh Busher

2006. Credibility, authenticity and voice: dilemmas in online interviewing. Qualitative Research 6:3 ► pp. 403 ff.

Moita-Lopes, Luiz Paulo

2006. Queering Literacy Teaching: Analyzing Gay-Themed Discourses in a Fifth-Grade Class in Brazil. Journal of Language, Identity & Education 5:1 ► pp. 31 ff.

VANDERSTAAY, STEVEN L.

2006. Learning from longitudinal research in criminology and the health sciences. Reading Research Quarterly 41:3 ► pp. 328 ff.

Heylen, Ann

2005. The Legacy of Literacy Practices in Colonial Taiwan. Japanese–Taiwanese– Chinese: Language Interaction and Identity Formation. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 26:6 ► pp. 496 ff.

Sutherland, LeeAnn M.

2005. Black Adolescent Girls' Use of Literacy Practices to Negotiate Boundaries of Ascribed Identity. Journal of Literacy Research 37:3 ► pp. 365 ff.

Vet, Thérèse de

2005. Parry in Paris: Structuralism, Historical Linguistics, and the Oral Theory. Classical Antiquity 24:2 ► pp. 257 ff.

Cohen, David

2003. Writing, Law, and Legal Practice in the Athenian Courts. In Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece, ► pp. 78 ff.

Dean-jones, Lesley

2003. Literacy and the Charlatan in Ancient Greek Medicine. In Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece, ► pp. 97 ff.

Ford, Andrew

2003. From Letters to Literature: Reading the “Song Culture” of Classical Greece. In Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece, ► pp. 15 ff.

Gagarin, Michael

2003. Letters of the Law: Written Texts in Archaic Greek Law. In Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece, ► pp. 59 ff.

Henrichs, Albert

2003. Writing Religion: Inscribed Texts, Ritual Authority, and the Religious Discourse of the Polis. In Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece, ► pp. 38 ff.

Hunter, Richard

2003. Reflecting on Writing and Culture: Theocritus and the Style of Cultural Change. In Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece, ► pp. 213 ff.

Kahn, Charles H.

2003. Writing Philosophy: Prose and Poetry from Thales to Plato. In Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece, ► pp. 139 ff.

Lloyd, Geoffrey

2003. Literacy in Greek and Chinese Science: Some Comparative Issues. In Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece, ► pp. 122 ff.

MacKinnon, Dolly & Catherine Manathunga

2003. Going Global with Assessment: What to do when the dominant culture's literacy drives assessment. Higher Education Research & Development 22:2 ► pp. 131 ff.

Thomas, Rosalind

2003. Prose Performance Texts:Epideixisand Written Publication in the Late Fifth and Early Fourth Centuries. In Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece, ► pp. 162 ff.

Yunis, Harvey

2003. Preface. In Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece, ► pp. vii ff.

Yunis, Harvey

2003. Writing for Reading: Thucydides, Plato, and the Emergence of the Critical Reader. In Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece, ► pp. 189 ff.

Yunis, Harvey

2003. Introduction: Why Written Texts?. In Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece, ► pp. 1 ff.

Harvey Yunis

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Moje, Elizabeth B.

2000. “To be Part of the Story”: The Literacy Practices of Gangsta Adolescents. Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 102:3 ► pp. 651 ff.

Moje, Elizabeth B.

2000. Critical Issues: Circles of Kinship, Friendship, Position, and Power: Examining the Community in Community-Based Literacy Research. Journal of Literacy Research 32:1 ► pp. 77 ff.

Moje, Elizabeth B.

2000. “To be Part of the Story”: The Literacy Practices of Gangsta Adolescents. Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 102:3 ► pp. 651 ff.

Egan-Robertson, Ann

1998. Learning about Culture, Language, and Power: Understanding Relationships among Personhood, Literacy Practices, and Intertextuality. Journal of Literacy Research 30:4 ► pp. 449 ff.

Verhoeven, Ludo

1997. Functional Literacy. In Encyclopedia of Language and Education, ► pp. 127 ff.

Verhoeven, Ludo

1998. A Future Perspective on Literacy in Europe. Peabody Journal of Education 73:3 ► pp. 127 ff.

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2003. Bibliography. In Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece, ► pp. 235 ff.

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