Letter Writing as a Social PracticeDavid Barton, Nigel Hall John Benjamins Publishing, 2000 - 262 páginas 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 importance of letter writing can be seen in that the phenomenon has been widespread historically, being one of earliest forms of writing, and a wide range of contemporary genres have their roots in letters. The writing of a letter is embedded in a particular social situation, and like all other types of literacy objects and events, the activity gains its meaning and significance from being situated in cultural beliefs, values, and practices. This book brings together anthropologists, historians, educators and other social scientists, providing a range of case studies that explore aspects of the socially situated nature of letter writing. |
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CHAPTER 1 Introduction | 1 |
CHAPTER 2 Letters and the Social Grounding of Differentiated Genres | 15 |
CHAPTER 3 The Familiar Letter and Social Refinement in America 17501800 | 31 |
CHAPTER 4 Letter Writing in a Cornish Community in the 1790s | 43 |
CHAPTER 5 English Pauper Letters 180034 and the English Language | 63 |
A nineteenth century perspective | 83 |
CHAPTER 7 LetterWriting Instruction in 19th Century Schools in the United States | 109 |
CHAPTER 8 Young Childrens Explorations of Letter Writing | 131 |
Visuality and Prisoners Letters | 179 |
Love Letters and Social Transformation in Nepal | 199 |
The Recontextualisation of LetterWriting Practices in Literacy Classes for Unschooled Adults i | 209 |
The Future of the letter? | 233 |
Author biographies | 253 |
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STUDIES IN WRITTEN LANGUAGE AND LITERACY | 263 |
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