From oral to literate culture : colonial experience in the English West Indies / Peter A. Roberts.
1997
PE3310 .R63 1997
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Title
From oral to literate culture : colonial experience in the English West Indies / Peter A. Roberts.
Author
ISBN
9781435694835 (electronic bk.)
143569483X (electronic bk.)
9766400377
9789766400378
143569483X (electronic bk.)
9766400377
9789766400378
Imprint
Kingston, Jamaica : Press University of the West Indies, 1997.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (x, 301 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
PE3310 .R63 1997
System Control No.
(OCoLC)657026209
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-295) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
An introduction to the language of West Indians
Nonlinguistic methods of communication and transmission of information in the plantation slave society
Aspects of oral culture in the slave population
Political and social influences on the development of vernacular English
Literate communication in the plantation slave society
The rise of printing and publishing in the West Indies and its effects
Intellectual and literary activity and its effects on literate English
The rise of schools and their effect on English
English language and literacy in the early schools
The legacy of colonial literacy in West Indies.
Nonlinguistic methods of communication and transmission of information in the plantation slave society
Aspects of oral culture in the slave population
Political and social influences on the development of vernacular English
Literate communication in the plantation slave society
The rise of printing and publishing in the West Indies and its effects
Intellectual and literary activity and its effects on literate English
The rise of schools and their effect on English
English language and literacy in the early schools
The legacy of colonial literacy in West Indies.
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Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010.
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. (http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212)
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Print version: Roberts, Peter A. From oral to literate culture. Kingston, Jamaica : Press University of the West Indies, 1997
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