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Gudschinsky 1974b

 
Reference
 

Gudschinsky, Sarah C. 1974b. "Linguistics and literacy." Current Trends in Linguistics 12(3):2039–2055. Interest level: specialist.

Summary
 

Focuses on the subject of orthography and organizes all observations around this subject. Chose tagmemics as the linguistic model and uses Goodman's model of four stages of reading competency as background for discussion. Includes own definition of literacy. Areas of focus are:

 
  • linguist's role
  • nature of writing systems
  • discourse and paragraph
  • sentence and phrase
  • word
  • syllable and morpheme
  • phoneme, and
  • lexicon.
 

Desires to inspire readers to do further reading and to carry out linguistic research as it relates to literacy problems.


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