Combines key theoretical issues with illustrative case studies to examine current understanding of literacy and provides new, more adequate ways of understanding. Key Features: argues that literacy should be approached from both theoretical and practical angles, drawing on insights from social theory and linguistics; reviews important theoretical sources and provides illustrative case studies to examine the social contexts of literacy; emphasises the roles of literacy in complex, multilingual settings backed up by case study material from the author's work in London and Sydney. Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students of applied linguistics, adult education, language education and cultural studies. Also literacy theorists and researchers.
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