Prinsloo Mastin, Baynham Mike (Eds.). Literacies, Global and Local

John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2008. — 228 p. — (AILA Applied Linguistics Series 2).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.Literacy and Power: Aligning Literacy Learners with dominant Discourses and Practices
Globalised literacy education: Intercultural trade in textual and cultural practice - Peter Freebody and Jill Freiberg
To seem and to feel: Engaging cultural artefacts to "do" literacy - Lesley Bartlett
Being a new capitalist mother - Kathy PittLocal and Global: Taking hold of Literacy
Habitus in children's multimodal text-making: A discussion - Kate Pahl
Fateful literacy: New meanings, old ideologies, and some unexpected consequences of Nepali love letter writing - Laura M. Ahearn
Children's games as local semiotic play: An ethnographic account - Mastin PrinslooResearch Tools: Conceptual Resources for Literacy Study
Learning in semiotic domains: A social and situated account - James Paul Gee
Assembling "Skills for Life": Actor-network theory and the New Literacy Studies - Julia ClarkeLiteracy Practices in Time and Space
Elite or powerful literacies? Constructions of literacy in the novels of Charles Dickens and Mrs Gaskell - Mike Baynham
Beyond "here's a culture, here's a literacy": Vision in Amerindian literacies - Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza