32.3505, Disc: Literacy Mediators

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Subject: 32.3505, Disc: Literacy Mediators

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Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2021 21:51:46
From: Andrey Rosowsky [a.rosowsky at sheffield.ac.uk]
Subject: Literacy Mediators

 
Fellow Linguists,

I wonder if you may be able to help with a research project I am currently
engaged in. I am looking for any examples of literacy mediators (Barton 2007,
Street 1993 and 2001, Papen 2005a) who are able to read (decode) for someone
whose language they do not know. For example, reading a letter in, say, Kikuyu
by an English speaker who attempts a rough approximation of the written words
in a letter written in Kikuyu using Roman script for a recipient/listener who
is a Kikuyu speaker but who cannot read. I have also come across the perhaps
apocryphal story of the illiterate Finnish shipbuilder working in Newcastle
(UK) whose letters from home are read out to him by a non-Finnish speaking
Geordie friend.

Has anyone any other examples they can point me towards??



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics



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