Literacies, Global and Local

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Literacies, Global and Local is written by Mastin Prinsloo and published by John Benjamins Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9027205183 (ISBN 10) and 9789027205186 (ISBN 13).

The articles collected in this volume draw on or relate to a body of work that has become known as the 'New Literacy Studies' (NLS), which studies literacy as situated semiotic practices that vary across sites in specific ways that are socially shaped. The collection offers a body of empirically and theoretically based papers on literacy ethnography as well as providing engagements with critical issues around literacy and education. The articles offer complementary perspectives on research and theory in literacy studies and include research perspectives from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, as well as North and South America. The researchers are all concerned to take the work of the New Literacy Studies further by expanding on its conceptual resources and research sites.