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Illiteracy, ill-literacy and literacy among Western Armenians: En route from the Near East to the West, from the 1950s until today

Hervé Georgelin · 2007

Catalogue summary

Long observation of one post-Ottoman family follows Western Armenians moving from oral habits toward written communication while inherited skills and language continue linking relatives across three continents.

Why this matters

The generational case complicates deficit models of literacy by showing how Ottoman popular culture remains adaptive within dispersed Armenian family life.

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Published in

European journal of Turkish studies

Year

2007

Language

English

DOI

10.4000/ejts.1313

Citation

Hervé Georgelin 2007. Illiteracy, ill-literacy and literacy among Western Armenians: En route from the Near East to the West, from the 1950s until today. European journal of Turkish studies. https://doi.org/10.4000/ejts.1313

Topics

Diaspora Language, literature, and translation Gender, family, memory, and oral history

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