Literacies, Global and Local
Editors
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 well as North and South America. The researchers are all concerned to take the work of the New Literacy Studies further by expanding on its conceptual resources and research sites.
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series, 2] 2008. vii, 218 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | p. vii
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Introduction: Renewing literacy studiesMastin Prinsloo and Mike Baynham | pp. 1–13
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Part I. Literacy and power: Aligning literacy learners with dominant discourses and practices
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1. Globalised literacy education: Intercultural trade in textual and cultural practicePeter Freebody and Jill Freiberg | pp. 17–34
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2. To seem and to feel: Engaging cultural artefacts to "do" literacyLesley Bartlett | pp. 35–50
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3. Being a new capitalist motherKathy Pitt | pp. 51–70
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Part II. Local and global: Taking hold of literacy
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4. Habitus in children's multimodal text-making: A discussionKate Pahl | pp. 73–91
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5. Fateful literacy: New meanings, old ideologies, and some unexpected consequences of Nepali love letter writingLaura M. Ahearn | pp. 93–116
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6. Children's games as local semiotic play: An ethnographic accountMastin Prinsloo | pp. 117–133
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Part III. Research tools: Conceptual resources for literacy study
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7. Learning in semiotic domains: A social and situated accountJames Paul Gee | pp. 137–149
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8. Assembling "Skills for Life": Actor-network theory and the New Literacy StudiesJulia Clarke | pp. 151–169
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Part IV. Literacy practices in time and space
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9. Elite or powerful literacies? Constructions of literacy in the novels of Charles Dickens and Mrs GaskellMike Baynham | pp. 173–192
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10. Beyond "here's a culture, here's a literacy": Vision in Amerindian literaciesLynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza | pp. 193–213
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Index | pp. 215–218
“This collection is a reminder that while educational policy founders between the macro and the micro, the global and the local – the futures of literacy are being made and remade by the likes of UK migrant children negotiating new identities, by Nepalese women reading and writing their lives for the first time, by middle class kids playing videogames, and in the street talk and artistry of children in the townships of South Africa.”
Allan Luke, Queensland University of Technology
“This timely collection of New Literacy Studies scholarship reflects the continuing generativity of the social literacies framework to tackle questions about texts and meaning-making in the globalised, multimodal and multilingual contexts of the 21st century.”
Janet Maybin, Open University Milton Keynes
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2023. Critical multimodal literacy practices in student‐created comics. Literacy 57:2 ► pp. 161 ff. 
Mirhosseini, Seyyed-Abdolhamid, Mohsen Shirazizadeh & Houra Pakizehdel
2022. Bridging Language Education and “New Literacy Studies”: Reinvigorating Courses of General English at an Iranian University. Journal of Language, Identity & Education 21:5 ► pp. 287 ff.
Shaswar, Annika Norlund & Jenny Rosén
2022. Multiple Approaches to Literacies in the Age of Mobility. In Literacies in the Age of Mobility, ► pp. 1 ff.
Kjus, Yngvar
2021. The Use of Copyright in Digital Times: A Study of How Artists Exercise Their Rights in Norway. Popular Music and Society 44:3 ► pp. 241 ff.
Moss, Gemma
2021. Literacies and social practice: sociological perspectives on reading research. Education 3-13 49:1 ► pp. 41 ff.
Dick, Archie L.
2020. Reading Spaces in South Africa, 1850–1920s,
Rothoni, Anastasia
2019. Theorising and Understanding Young People’s Everyday Literacies. In Teenagers’ Everyday Literacy Practices in English, ► pp. 21 ff.
Bhatt, Ibrar, Roberto de Roock & Jonathon Adams
2015. Diving deep into digital literacy: emerging methods for research. Language and Education 29:6 ► pp. 477 ff.
Kendrick, Maureen, Margaret Early & Walter Chemjor
2014. Youth Literacies in Kenya and Canada: Lessons Learned from a Global Learning Network Project. In Everyday Youth Literacies [Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, 1], ► pp. 95 ff.
Prinsloo, Mastin & Polo Lemphane
2014. What Counts as the Social in a Social Practices Approach to the Study of Children’s Engagement with Electronic Media, Language and Literacy in a Context of Social Diversity?. In Everyday Youth Literacies [Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, 1], ► pp. 129 ff.
Baynham, Mike
2012. Sociolinguistic Studies of Literacy. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics,
Hobbs, Robert Dean
2012. Diverse multilingual researchers contribute language acquisition components to an integrated model of education. International Journal of Multilingualism 9:3 ► pp. 204 ff.
Kendrick, Maureen, Walter Chemjor & Margaret Early
2012. ICTs as placed resources in a rural Kenyan secondary school journalism club. Language and Education 26:4 ► pp. 297 ff.
Norton, Bonny & Carrie-Jane Williams
2012. Digital identities, student investments and eGranary as a placed resource. Language and Education 26:4 ► pp. 315 ff.
Prinsloo, Mastin
2012. Literacy in Community Settings. In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics,
Hibbert, Liesel
2011. Language development in higher education: Suggested paradigms and their applications in South Africa. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies 29:1 ► pp. 31 ff.
Norton, Bonny & Kelleen Toohey
2011. Identity, language learning, and social change. Language Teaching 44:4 ► pp. 412 ff.
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2011. References. In Living Language, ► pp. 307 ff.
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFC: Literacy
Main BISAC Subject
LAN020000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching