<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I've not been following this thread but this email jumped out.<div><br></div><div>Surely India has been one of the world's most sophisticated and continuous of literate cultures, along with China. India and China were literate thousands of years before Britain existed as an idea, much less as an empire. However, this notion of literacy evokes a very narrow conception of what it is and what it can be. You might want to look at this:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Garcia, O (2006) with Bartlett and Kleifgen; From biliteracy to pluriliteracies, in Handbook of Applied Linguistics on Multilingual Communication, Mouton.</font></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">also at:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><a href="http://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/kleifgen/tech_n_lit/pluriliteraciesfinal.pdf">http://www.tc.columbia.edu/faculty/kleifgen/tech_n_lit/pluriliteraciesfinal.pdf</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">best</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.8px/normal Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Simon</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.8px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9.8px/normal Arial; "><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 3 Sep 2011, at 15:18, Doug Belshaw wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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Wow. "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">India was not primarily colonized by Britain but </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">by literate culture." Now *there's* an unwarranted assertion, John.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">I agree we don't need more labels but, if we did, I think I'd find Dave White's 'Visitors and Residents' concept more persuasive: </span><a href="http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2009/10/14/visitors-residents-the-video/">http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2009/10/14/visitors-residents-the-video/</a></div><div><br>--- <br>Doug Belshaw<br><a href="http://dougbelshaw.com">http://dougbelshaw.com</a><div><br></div><div>This email is:</div><div><br></div><div>[ ] Bloggable</div><div>[x] Ask first</div><div>[ ] Private</div><br></div><p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Saturday, 3 September 2011 at 13:00, <a href="mailto:idc-request@mailman.thing.net">idc-request@mailman.thing.net</a> wrote:</p>
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<span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">India was not primarily colonized by Britain but<br>by literate culture</span></span>
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