Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses

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Routledge, Aug 23, 2007 - Education - 256 pages

This fully-updated new edition engages with topics such as orality and literacy, the history of literacy, the uses and abuses of literacy in that history, the analysis of language as cultural communication, and social theories of mind and meaning, among many other topics. It represents the most current statement of a widely discussed and used theory about how language functions in society, a theory initially developed in the first edition of the book, and developed in this new edition in tandem with analytic techniques for the study of language and literacy in context, with special reference to cross-cultural issues in communities and schools.

Built around a large number of specific examples, this new edition reflects current debates across the world about education and educational reform, the nature of language and communication, and the role of sociocultural diversity in schools and society. One of the core goals of this book, from its first edition on, has been to develop a new and more widely applicable vision of applied linguistics. It will be of interest to researchers, lecturers and students in education, linguistics, or any field that deals with language, especially in social or cultural terms.

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Contents

Introduction
1
1 Meaning and ideology
6
2 Literacy crises and the significance of literacy
31
3 The literacy myth and the history of literacy
50
4 The New Literacy Studies
67
5 Meaning
90
6 Discourse analysis
115
stories go to school
130
8 Discourses and literacies
150
9 Language individuals and Discourses
182
References
223
Index
241
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Professor James Paul Gee is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University, US.

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