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Andrée Tabouret-Keller, Robert B. Le Page, Penelope Gardner-Chloros, & Gabrielle Varro (eds.), Vernacular literacy: A re-evaluation. By members of the International Group for the Study of Language Standardization and the Vernacularization of Literacy (IGLSVL). (Oxford studies in anthropological linguistics, 13). Oxford: Clarendon; New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 367.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer
Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer
Affiliation:
Anthropology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506 mahafan@ksu.edu
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Abstract

The group known as the IGLSVL, which has produced this book, grew out of a link between the Department of Language and Linguistic Science of the University of York, England, and the Institut de Psychologie of the Université Louis Pasteur of Strasbourg, France. The group has been meeting every other year since 1986 and disseminating workshop discussions in mimeographed form. It is our good fortune that they decided, at their 1992 meeting, to publish the results of their work for wider distribution. The resulting volume, here under review, does an outstanding job of presenting an international survey, particularly rich in insider's views, of the advantages of vernacular literacy, as well as the difficulties of achieving it.

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Book Review
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Language in Society , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , October 1999 , pp. 609 - 615
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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