Transforming Literacies and Language: Multimodality and Literacy in the New Media Age - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441175881 ISBN 13: 9781441175885

Publisher: Continuum, 2012

Synopsis

Technology-mediated communication cannot help but inform our literacies. This book is a reconceptualization of the role of language and pedagogy in what Kress (2003) has termed the new media age. At the heart of the volume is the notion of 'transformation' - a change in discourse practices, meaning making, technology and, as a result, literacy acquisition itself. The chapters look at language as positioned in a hugely multimodal world. Communication extends beyond the traditional realms of discourse, from the collaborative efforts of wikis to the hybrid speech and text of online messaging. These new areas of meaning-making are excellent and extremely important avenues to explore for academics interested in applied linguistics, language and literature, language acquisition and multimodality.

About this title

About the Author

Kate T. Anderson is Assistant Professor in the Learning Sciences and Technologies Academic Group and Faculty Researcher in the Learning Sciences Lab at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Alvin P. Leong is a Lecturer in the Language and Communication Department, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441175881
• ISBN 13: 9781441175885
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262
• Editor: Ho Caroline M.L.