Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses
Social Linguistics and Literacies in its first edition was a founding document in the "New Literacy Studies", an interdisciplinary field that studies literacy in its full range of contexts: cognitive, social, cultural, historical, and institutional. The second edition, fully updated with new material, served as both an introduction to the field and the development of a particularly influential perspective within the field. It showed how contemporary sociocultural approaches to language and...
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In its first edition, Social Linguistics and Literacies was a major contribution to the emerging interdisciplinary field of sociocultural approaches to language and literacy, and was one of the founding texts of the ‘New Literacy Studies’.This book serves as a classic introduction to the study of language, learning and literacy in their social, cultural and political contexts. It shows how contemporary sociocultural approaches to language and literacy emerged and:Engages with topics such as orality and literacy, the history of literacy, the nature of discourse analysis and social theories of mind and meaningExplores how language functions in a societyThrough the exploration of the notion of ‘Discourse’, it surveys the current state of the field with specific reference to cross-cultural issues in communities and schools.This new edition incorporates contemporary work on "new literacies", that is, meaning making that uses digital media, images, or "multimodal texts" which integrate words and images. This new perspective fully updates the book and its approach to language, learning, and literacy in society and culture.
IntroductionCh. 1Ideology and Theory: The Moral Basis of Discourse Analysis1Ch. 2Literacy and the Literacy Myth: From Plato to Freire22Ch. 3The New Literacy Studies: Sociocultural Approaches to Language and Literacy46Ch. 4Meaning: Choosing, Guessing and Cultural Models66Ch. 5Discourse Analysis: Status, Solidarity and Social Identity90Ch. 6Discourses and Literacies122Ch. 7Language, Individuals and Discourses149References192Index210
