Literacies, Global and Local (AILA Applied Linguistics Series (Aals), Volume 2)

Literacies, Global and Local......Page 2
Editorial page......Page 3
Title page......Page 4
LCC data......Page 5
Table of contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Part I. Literacy and power......Page 24
The argument: ‘Export-quality literacy’?......Page 26
Inheriting ‘compact’ concepts......Page 30
Three kinds of ‘translucence’......Page 31
The ‘mannerisms and debris’ of literacy learning and teaching......Page 35
Conclusions......Page 41
References......Page 42
Introduction......Page 44
Conceptual framework......Page 45
Situated identities and literacy practices......Page 46
The role of cultural artefacts in performing literacy......Page 47
Methods......Page 49
Relevant social and cultural contexts......Page 50
Material cultural artefacts......Page 52
Graça......Page 53
Eunisa......Page 55
Discussion and implications......Page 56
References......Page 58
Introduction......Page 60
Bridges and stepping stones: The path to qualifications......Page 62
Learning to be reflexive......Page 64
Doing is studying......Page 66
Presences and absences......Page 69
Disappearing the local community......Page 70
Introducing speaking......Page 71
Being a good mother......Page 75
Conclusion......Page 77
References......Page 78
Part II. Local and global......Page 80
Introduction......Page 82
The studies......Page 84
Habitus in texts......Page 85
Example 1: The prayer bead map......Page 88
Example 2: May’s plan of her house......Page 92
Discussion......Page 96
References......Page 98
5. Fateful literacy......Page 102
From love to development – and back again......Page 105
The costs and benefits of literacy......Page 107
Durga Kumari’s two love letter correspondences......Page 108
Literacy practices and development discourses......Page 112
Conclusion......Page 121
References......Page 123
6. Children's games as local semiotic play......Page 126
Children play......Page 127
Making sense in Khwezi Park......Page 128
Playing by the rules......Page 132
Making meaning across social semiotic domains......Page 135
Children’s multiple social worlds......Page 136
‘Local’ resources for meaning-making......Page 138
Language and musicality......Page 139
A social practices perspective on early childhood literacy learning......Page 140
References......Page 141
Part III. Research tools......Page 144
7. Learning in semiotic domains......Page 146
References......Page 157
Introduction: The treachery of translation......Page 160
So what’s ‘new’?......Page 162
Generalized symmetry and relational materialism......Page 163
The four moments of translation......Page 167
The prince and the pauper: Where does the observer stand?......Page 171
Conclusion......Page 175
References......Page 177
Part IV. Literacy practices in time and space......Page 180
Introduction: Literacy practices in time and space......Page 182
Literacy in time (2): Fictional perspectives......Page 183
Key constructs for the study of literacy......Page 184
Institutions/discourses in Bleak House and Mary Barton......Page 185
Elite literacy practices, register and exclusion......Page 187
Literacy events in Bleak House and Mary Barton......Page 191
Texts and genres......Page 192
Material culture of literacy......Page 194
From elite literacies to powerful literacies?......Page 195
Literacy practices in fictional texts......Page 197
In conclusion: Fictional texts as evidence of literacy practices?......Page 198
References......Page 200
10. Beyond "here's a culture, here's a literacy"......Page 202
Literacy as a ‘trans-’phenomenon......Page 203
Literacy and the asymmetry of power......Page 205
Vision......Page 206
Vision and Amerindian literacies......Page 207
Vision, knowledge and indigenous perspectivism......Page 209
Vision and indigenous literacy......Page 211
Vision, the Western cosmovision of modernity and literacy......Page 212
‘Trans-’border crossings, cosmovisions and the colonial difference......Page 217
Conclusion......Page 219
References......Page 220
Index......Page 224
The AILA Applied Linguistics Series......Page 228