Ebook: Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century: the Literary Agenda

Cover; The Literary Agenda: Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century; Copyright; Series Introduction; Contents; List of Figures; 1: Introduction; Working assumptions; Structure of the book; Notes; 2: A Linguist's Tale; A linguistic primer for oral and written language; Phonology; Four tiers of sound; Morphology; Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics; Orthography; The linguist's tale of a bear; Notes; 3: A Child's Tale; On turning ten; Pre-reading can last a very long time; What's in a word; What's in a letter; What's in the visual cortex.;Being Literate in the 21st Century tackles some of the most difficult questions for the next generation around literacy and thought, as we continue to move into a digital culture. It explores research from multiple disciplines on what it means to be literate, and addresses the problem of universal literacy.