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Review published In: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on the Development of Text-Production Abilities in Speech and Writing. Part 1
Edited by Ruth A. Berman and Ludo Verhoeven
[Written Language & Literacy 5:1] 2002
► pp. 127–131

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Book review

Jack Goody. The power of the written tradition [Smithsonian series in ethnographic inquiry]. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 2000. viii, 192 pp. Hb. $45.00 pb. $18.95

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Published online: 25 March 2002
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