Language Attitudes and Literacy Education: Seventeenth-century Paris and Contemporary Philadelphia
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2013
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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Abstract
In this paper, I consider the interaction of societal language attitudes and
children's literacy education, with attention to two particular societies:
seventeenth-century Paris and contemporary Philadelphia. In both societies,
language attitudes favor a standard dialect-the variety spoken by the upper class,
and the variety representative of elite social status. I examine literacy education
practices and children's reading materials. For both societies, I suggest that the
divergence of orthography and pronunciation causes difficulty for beginning
readers who speak non-standard dialects. I ultimately propose the similarity of
reading education in seventeenth-century Paris and modem Philadelphia, two
societies more than three centuries apart.