Full Description
This volume contains a collection of seminal articles and recent research which are important reading for anyone wanting to understand current theoretical developments within the field of language and literacy studies. The collection reflects a growing recognition over the past decade of the importance of social factors in language and literacy development. The focus has shifted from talking about skills and competences to investigating the relationships between language and literacy practices, personal identities and social and cultural processes. It provides an important resource of classic articles (some of which are not easily obtainable) and up-to-date research for teachers, students and researchers working in language studies, anthropology and education.
Contents
Part 1 Language, culture and meaningprimitive languages, Bronislaw Malinowski; toward ethnographies of communication, Dell Hymes; language as social semiotic, M.A.K. Halliday; language and ideology, V.N. Volosinov. Part 3 Studies of language practices: family literacy - conservation and change in the transmission of literacy styles and values, Denny Taylor; what no bedtime story means - narratives skills at home and school, Shirley Brice Heath; literacies among the Panjabis in Southall, Mukul Saxena; the struggle for voice - narrative, literacy and consciousness in an East Harlem school, Michele Sola and Adrian Bennett. Part 3 Literacy, culture and history: cross-cultural perspectives on literacy, Brian Street; the legacies of literacy, Harvey Graff; orality and literacy - from "The Savage Mind to Ways with Words", James Gee. Part 4 The politics of language and literacy: educational language planning in England and Wales - multicultural rhetoric and assimilationist assumptions, Michael Stubbs; the beginning of English literary studies in British India, Gauri Viswanathan; gender, language and the politics of literacy, Kathleen Rockhill; the adult literacy process as cultural action for freedom, Paulo Freire.
