Local Literacies is a unique study of everyday reading and writing. By concentrating on a selection of people in a particular community in Britain, the authors analyze how they use literacy in their day-to-day lives. This exploration provides a description of literacy at one point in time, and also reveals the nature and significance of communication to people, households and communities. Local Literacies, the first in-depth study of literacy, includes: * appendices of raw data * notes for teachers and students on how to use the book * guidance for carrying out individual research Local Literacies is both a theoretical work, and a practical book. It provides stimulating and informative reading for anyone interested in the nature of literacy today, particularly students, teachers and researchers.

Local Literacies: Reading and Writing in One Community

Politics & Social Sciences

Barton, David

Hamilton, Mary

Social Sciences

Routledge

This is a varied collection of key writings from leading international scholars in the field of literacy. It makes a timely and important contribution to literary practices - essential reading for anyone involved in literary education.

Situated Literacies: Theorising Reading and Writing in Context

Literature & Fiction

Ivanič, Roz

History & Criticism

Literacy and the Politics of Representation (Literacies)

Literacy is a key indicator for comparing individuals and nations in contemporary society. It is central to public debates about the nature of the public sphere, economic markets, citizenship and self-governance.  Literacy and the Politics of Representation aims to uncover the constructed nature of public understandings of literacy by examining detailed examples of how literacy is represented in a range of public contexts. It looks at the ways in which knowledge about literacy is created and distributed, the location and relative power of the knowledge-makers, and examines the different semiotic resources used in such representations: images and metaphors, numerical and statistical models, and textual narratives and how they are related to one another.  The book focuses on the UK from 1970 to the present, but includes a range of international comparisons and examples. In addition, exemplar chapters offer a model of analysis that can be used to deconstruct the representations of social policy issues.  This book is vital reading for postgraduate students in the areas of education studies, literacy, discourse analysis and multimodality.

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Local Literacies: Reading and Writing in One Community (Routledge Linguistics Classics)

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 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.

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

The Wordsworth A-Z of Opera: Who's Who and What's What in the Operatic World

Arts & Photography

Music

Diane Pub Co.

The storytelling tradition has long been an important piece of Kentucky history and culture. Folktales, legends, tall tales, and ghost stories hold a special place in the imaginations of inventive storytellers and captive listeners. In Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies Kentucky storyteller Mary Hamilton narrates a range of stories with the voice and creativity only a master storyteller can evoke. Hamilton has perfected the art of entrancing an audience no matter the subject of her tales. Kentucky Folktales includes stories about Daniel Boone's ability to single-handedly kill a bear, a daughter who saves her father's land by outsmarting the king, and a girl who uses gingerbread to exact revenge on her evil stepmother, among many others. Hamilton ends each story with personal notes on important details of her storytelling craft, such as where she first heard the story, how it evolved through frequent re-tellings and reactions from audiences, and where the stories take place. Featuring tales and legends from all over the Bluegrass State, Kentucky Folktales captures the expression of Kentucky's storytelling tradition.

Kentucky Folktales: Revealing Stories, Truths, and Outright Lies

United States

University Press of Kentucky

Academics Writing: The Dynamics of Knowledge Creation

Academics Writing recounts how academic writing is changing in the contemporary university, transforming what it means to be an academic and how, as a society, we produce academic knowledge. Writing practices are changing as the academic profession itself is reconfigured through new forms of governance and accountability, increasing use of digital resources, and the internationalisation of higher education. Through detailed studies of writing in the daily life of academics in different disciplines and in different institutions, this book explores: <ul>
<li>the space and time of academic writing;</li> <li>tensions between disciplines and institutions around genres of writing;</li> <li>the diversity of stances adopted towards the tools and technologies of writing, and towards engagement with social media; and</li> <li>the importance of relationships and collaboration with others, in writing and in ongoing learning in a context of constant change.</li> </ul> Drawing out implications of the work for academics, university management, professional training, and policy, Academics Writing: The Dynamics of Knowledge Creation is key reading for anyone studying or researching writing, academic support, and development within education and applied linguistics.

Tusting, Karin

Bhatt, Ibrar

McCulloch, Sharon

A-Z of Opera

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