In:Literacies, Global and Local
Edited by Mastin Prinsloo and Mike Baynham
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series 2] 2008
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 21 May 2008
https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.2.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgementsvii
Introduction: Renewing literacy studies
Part I. Literacy and power: Aligning literacy learners with dominant discourses and practices15
1. Globalised literacy education: Intercultural trade in textual and cultural practice
2. To seem and to feel: Engaging cultural artefacts to "do" literacy
3. Being a new capitalist mother
Part II. Local and global: Taking hold of literacy71
4. Habitus in children's multimodal text-making: A discussion
5. Fateful literacy: New meanings, old ideologies, and some unexpected consequences of Nepali love letter writing
6. Children's games as local semiotic play: An ethnographic account
Part III. Research tools: Conceptual resources for literacy study135
7. Learning in semiotic domains: A social and situated account
8. Assembling "Skills for Life": Actor-network theory and the New Literacy Studies
Part IV. Literacy practices in time and space171
9. Elite or powerful literacies? Constructions of literacy in the novels of Charles Dickens and Mrs Gaskell
10. Beyond "here's a culture, here's a literacy": Vision in Amerindian literacies
Index
