| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 218 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
AILA applied linguistics series, 1875-1113 ; v. 2 |
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AILA applied linguistics series ; v. 2. 1875-1113
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| Contents |
Literacies, Global and Local; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Literacy and power; 1. Globalised literacy education; 2. To seem and to feel; 3. Being a new capitalist mother; Part II. Local and global; 4. Habitus in children's multimodal text-making; 5. Fateful literacy; 6. Children's games as local semiotic play; Part III. Research tools; 7. Learning in semiotic domains; 8. Assembling "Skills for Life"; Part IV. Literacy practices in time and space; 9. Elite or powerful literacies? |
| Summary |
The articles collected in this volume draw on or relate to a body of work that has become known as the 'New Literacy Studies' (NLS), which studies literacy as situated semiotic practices that vary across sites in specific ways that are socially shaped. The collection offers a body of empirically and theoretically based papers on literacy ethnography as well as providing engagements with critical issues around literacy and education. The articles offer complementary perspectives on research and theory in literacy studies and include research perspectives from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, as |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
EBL |
| Subject |
Literacy.
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Sociolinguistics.
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Language and culture.
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Written communication.
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Language and education.
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sociolinguistics.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Literacy.
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Language and culture
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Language and education
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Literacy
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Sociolinguistics
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Written communication
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Prinsloo, Mastin.
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Baynham, Mike, 1950-
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| LC no. |
2007051558 |
| ISBN |
9789027291189 |
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9027291187 |
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