品牌：Mike Baynham
基本信息
·出版社：Longman
·页码：283 页码
·出版日：1995年
·ISBN：9780582087088
·条码：9780582087088
·版次：Paperback
·装帧：平装
·开本：32 32
内容简介
Book Description
Language in Social Life Seriesis a major series which highlights the importance of language to an understanding of issues of social and professional concern. It will be of practical relevance to all those wanting to understand how the ways we communicate both influence and are influenced by the structures and forces of contemporary social institutions.
Recent developments in literacy research argue that literacy is not a neutral package of de-contextualized skills, but must be understood in context as situated social practice.
Literacy Practicescombines key theoretical issues in ‘The New Literary Studies’ with illustrative case studies to examine this argument and provide new, more adequate ways of understanding literacy. In particular it argues that an adequate account of literacy must draw on both linguistic and social theory, providing a theory of text and a theory practice. It emphasizes in particular the roles of literacy in multilingual settings and much of the case study material is drawn from the author’s own work in London and Sydney.
The book begins by asking what literacy is and what models, myths and metaphors underpin its everyday understandings. It examines the social context of literacy, reviewing important theoretical sources and providing illustrative case studies, going on to review current linguistic perspectives on literacy, with illustrative texts. Mike Baynham also includes a critical review of ideas on reading and writing development from a social practice perspective, and concludes with a discussion of issues in researching literacy as social practice.
Literacy Practiceswill be of interest to students of Applied Linguistics, Language Education, Cultural Studies and Adult Education, as well as literacy theorists and researchers, and anthropologists.
作者简介
Mike Baynham is Senior Lecturer in Language and Literacy at the University of Technology, Sydney.
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