Literacies, Global and Local
Editors
| University of Cape Town
| University of Leeds
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
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vii
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1–13
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Part I. Literacy and power
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15
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17–34
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35–50
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51–70
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Part II. Local and global: Taking hold of literacy
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71
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73–91
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93–116
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117–133
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Part III. Research tools: Conceptual resources for literacy study
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135
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137–149
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151–169
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Part IV. Literacy practices in time and space
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171
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173–192
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193–213
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Index
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215–218
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“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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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. 
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.
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.
Kendrick, Maureen, Margaret Early & Walter Chemjor
2014.
In Everyday Youth Literacies [Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, 1],
► pp. 95 ff.
Kjus, Yngvar
2019. The Use of Copyright in Digital Times: A Study of How Artists Exercise Their Rights in Norway.
Popular Music and Society ► pp. 1 ff.
Mirhosseini, Seyyed-Abdolhamid, Mohsen Shirazizadeh & Houra Pakizehdel
2020. Bridging Language Education and “New Literacy Studies”: Reinvigorating Courses of General English at an Iranian University.
Journal of Language, Identity & Education ► pp. 1 ff.
Moss, Gemma
2021. Literacies and social practice: sociological perspectives on reading research.
Education 3-13 49:1 ► pp. 41 ff.
Norton, Bonny & Kelleen Toohey
2011. Identity, language learning, and social change.
Language Teaching 44:4 ► pp. 412 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.
In The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics,
Prinsloo, Mastin & Polo Lemphane
2014.
In Everyday Youth Literacies [Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, 1],
► pp. 129 ff.
Rothoni, Anastasia
2019.
In Teenagers’ Everyday Literacy Practices in English,
► pp. 21 ff.
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 14 may 2021. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.
Subjects
BIC Subject: CFC – Literacy
BISAC Subject: LAN020000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching