Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents
Author:   Amy Shuman
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Volume:   11
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9780511983252


Publication Date:   05 November 2011
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Storytelling Rights: The Uses of Oral and Written Texts by Urban Adolescents


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Based on intensive fieldwork in an urban American junior high school, this original study explores the relationship between oral and written texts in everyday life by analysing tellings and retellings of local events, diaries, writings and discussions.

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Author:   Amy Shuman
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
Volume:   11
ISBN:  

9780511983252


ISBN 10:   0511983255
Publication Date:   05 November 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Fight stories: what counts is the recounting; 2. Storyability and tellability; 3. Collaborative uses of literacy in the adolescent community; 4. Retellings; 5. Varieties of contextuality; 6. Familiarity and distance: toward a theory of oral and written personal narration; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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