Literacy, Emotion and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll by Niko Besnier

Literacy, Emotion and Authority: Reading and Writing on a Polynesian Atoll

Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language

Niko Besnier

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In this study Niko Besnier analyzes the transformation of the Polynesian community of Nukulaelae from a nonliterate into a literate society, using a contemporary perspective that emphasizes literacy as a social practice embedded in a socio-cultura...

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