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1 online resource (330 pages) |
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Routledge Linguistics Classics |
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Routledge linguistics classics
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| Contents |
Front Cover; Local Literacies; Copyright Page; Contents; List of asides; List of figures; Foreword by Deborah Brandt; Preface; Introduction: local literacies in a global world; Literacy studies; Living in the linguistic landscape; The changing profile of lancaster; Vernacular practices in the virtual city; Local, global and glocal; New frameworks for enquiry: developments in theory and methodology; Literacies for learning; In conclusion; Part I; 1. Understanding literacy as social practice; Introduction; A social theory of literacy: practices and events; Studies of community literacy |
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Theorising local social relationsTheories of culture; The public narrative on literacy; 2. Locating literacies in time and space; A time and a place: Lancaster, England; William Stout of Lancaster, 1665-1752; The nineteenth century; History of education; 3. Locating literacies in time and space: (2) Lancaster today; Lancaster today; A social profile; The visual literacy environment; Contemporary institutions of literacy; A sense of place; Springside; 1990 and the 1990s; 4. Ethnography in practice; Introduction; The data; Analysis and writing |
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What can be learned from an ethnographic study of literacyPart II; 5. How they've fared in education: Harry's literacy practices; Harry's literacy history and literacy life; Ruling passions; Educated and uneducated; Fiction, truth and reality; 6. Getting things done in the community: Shirley's literacy practices; Shirley's literacy history and literacy life; Ruling passions: fighting injustice, making changes; Dyslexia, home and school; Editing the residents' association newsletter: linking public and private; 7. Living a local life: June's literacy practices; June's literacy life |
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Living a local lifeUsing media; 8. Leisure and pleasure: Cliff's literacy practices; Cliff's literacy history and literacy life; Cliff's ruling passion: leisure and pleasure in life; Sharing lives and being a committed parent; Ill-health and depression; Part III; 9. Everyday literacies: (1) the range of practices; Diversity; Writing in the home; Everyday reading; Values, morals and censorship; Literacy difficulties in daily life; Books in people's lives; 10. Everyday literacies: (2) the patterning of practices; The gendering of home practices; Home numeracy practices |
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Multilingual literacies at home11. Home, learning and education; Borderlands; Learning in the home; Literacy, home and school; Relations with education; 12. The web of literacies in local organisations; Local groups and organisations; The Allotment Association; Literacy in social participation: the annual general meeting; Literacy in social action: the allotments fight; The Housing Action Project and the residents' association; Literacies in groups; 13. Becoming expert: literacy and sense making; Introduction; Becoming expert; Vernacular knowledge; 14. Vernacular literacies |
| Summary |
Local Literacies is a unique detailed study of the role of reading and writing in people's everyday lives. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Lancaster, England, the authors analyse how they use literacy in their day-to-day lives. It follows four people in detail examining how they use local media, their participation in public life, the role of literacy in family activities and in leisure pursuits. Links are made between everyday learning and education. The study is based on an ethnographic approach to studying everyday activities and is framed in the theor |
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Vernacular practices |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Literacy -- Social aspects -- England -- Lancaster -- Case studies
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Sociolinguistics -- England -- Lancaster -- Case studies
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Literacy -- Social aspects
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Sociolinguistics
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England -- Lancaster
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Hamilton, Mary
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| ISBN |
9780203125106 |
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020312510X |
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9780203448885 |
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020344888X |
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