| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 212 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: The politics of place in academic literacy work; 1 Discourses of English and literacy in a Western Cape township school; 2 'Use your own words' -- impossible exhortations; 3 'I want to write about the Dalai Lama ... ': Literacies in transition; 4 Intertextual analysis: a research tool for uncovering the writer's emerging meanings; 5 A body of reading: making 'visible' the reading experiences of first-year medical students; 6 Change as additive: harnessing students' multimodal semiotic resources in an Engineering curriculum |
| Summary |
This book is an analysis of student literacy in an academic setting, and how this has changed due to political, economic and social factors. The contributors, who are all engaged in academic literacy work at a South African university, use the theoretical tradition of New Literacy Studies as developed by theorists such as James Gee, Brian Street and Gnnther Kress, and apply this to a case study of one university in the changing context of South Africa. Academic Literacy and the Languages of Change will be of interest to postgraduates and academics researching sociolinguistics, or language and |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Compliant with Level AA of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Content is displayed as HTML full text which can easily be resized or read with assistive technology, with mark-up that allows screen readers and keyboard-only users to navigate easily |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Literacy -- South Africa
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Sociolinguistics -- South Africa
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Students -- South Africa -- Language
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Sociolinguistics.
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Literacy
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Sociolinguistics
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Students -- Language
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South Africa
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Thesen, Lucia.
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Van Pletzen, Ermien.
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| ISBN |
9781847142528 |
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1847142524 |
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9780826487759 |
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0826487750 |
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1281295124 |
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9781281295125 |
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9781474211680 |
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1474211682 |
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9781441112712 |
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9786611295127 |
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6611295127 |
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1441112715 |
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9781441112712 |
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