Literacies, global and local / edited by Mastin Prinsloo, Mike Baynham. - vi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - AILA applied linguistics series, v. 2 1875-1113 ; . - AILA applied linguistics series ; v. 2. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction Renewing literacy studies / Literacy and power: Aligning literacy learners with dominant discourses and practices -- Globalised literacy education: Intercultural trade in textual and cultural practice / To seem and to feel: Engaging cultural artefacts to "do" literacy / Being a new capitalist mother / Local and global: Taking hold of literacy -- Habitus in children's multimodal text-making: A discussion / Fateful literacy: New meanings, old ideologies, and some unexpected consequences of Nepali love letter writing / Children's games as local semiotic play: An ethnographic account / Research tools: Conceptual resources for literacy study -- Learning in semiotic domains: A social and situated account / Assembling "Skills for Life" / Literacy practices in time and space -- Elite or powerful literacies? Constructions of literacy in the novels of Charles Dickens and Mrs. Gaskell / Beyond "here's a culture, here's a literacy": Vision in Amerindian literacies / Mastin Prinsloo, Mike Baynham -- Peter Preebody, Jill Freiberg -- Lesley Bartlett -- Kathy Pitt -- Kate Pahl -- Laura M. Ahearn -- Mastin Prinsloo -- James Paul Gee -- Actor-network theory and the New Literacy Studies -- Mike Baynham -- Lynn Mario T. Menezes, Mario T. Menezes. Part I. 1. 2. 3. Part II. 4. 5. 6. Part III. 7. 8. Part IV. 9. 10.

9027205183 9789027205186

2007051558


Literacy.
Sociolinguistics.
Language and culture.
Written communication
Language and education

P40.5.L58 / L58 2008

302.2244