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Subject: Local Literacies: Barton, Hamilton

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Title: Local Literacies 
Subtitle: Reading and Writing in One Community 
Series Title: Routledge Linguistics Classics  

Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
	   http://www.routledge.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415691741/ 


Author: David Barton
Author: Mary Hamilton

Hardback: ISBN:  9780415691727 Pages: 336 Price: U.S. $ 160.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9780415691727 Pages: 336 Price: U.K. £ 105.00
Paperback: ISBN:  9780415691741 Pages: 336 Price: U.K. £ 29.99
Paperback: ISBN:  9780415691741 Pages: 336 Price: U.S. $ 49.95


Abstract:

Please note: This is a new edition of a previously announced text.

"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 theory of literacy as a social 
practice. 

This Routledge Linguistics Classic includes a a new foreword by Deborah 
Brandt and a new framing chapter, in which David Barton and Mary Hamilton 
look at the connections between local and global activities, interfaces with 
institutional literacies, and the growing significance of digital literacies in 
everyday life. 

A seminal text, "Local Literacies" provides an explicit usable methodology for 
both teachers and researchers, and clear theorising around a set of six 
propositions. Clearly written and engaging, this is a deeply absorbing study 
and is essential reading for all those involved in literacy and literacy 
education. 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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