- 224 pages
- English
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About this book
Language, Literacy and Diversity brings together researchers who are leading the innovative and important re-theorization of language and literacy in relation to social mobility, multilingualism and globalization. The volume examines local and global flows of people, language and literacy in relation to social practice; the role (and nature) of boundary maintenance or disruption in global, transnational and translocal contexts; and the lived experiences of individuals on the front lines of global, transnational and translocal processes.
The contributors pay attention to the dynamics of multilingualism in located settings and the social and personal management of multilingualism in socially stratified and ethnically plural social settings. Together, they offer ground-breaking research on language practices and documentary practices as regards to access, selection, social mobility and gate-keeping processes in a range of settings across several continents: Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Truly Moving Texts
- 2 Classifying Migrants in the Field of Health: Sociolinguistic Scale and Neoliberal Statecraft
- 3 Negotiating Mobile Codes and Literacies at the Contact Zone: Another Perspective on South African Township Schools
- 4 English as a Lingua Franca: Lessons for Language and Mobility
- 5 Ariadne’s Thread: Literacy, Scale and Meaning-Making across Space and Time
- 6 How One Reads Whom and Why: Ideological Filtering in Reading Vernacular Literacy in France
- 7 Script Choice, Language Loss and the Politics of Anamnesis: Kashmiri in Diaspora
- 8 Language Shift, Cultural Practices and Writing in South African Indian English
- 9 Superdiversity and Social Class: An Interactional Perspective
- 10 Mobile Literacies and Micro-Narratives: Conformity and Transgression on a South African Educational Site
- 11 Early Literacies and Linguistic Mobilities
- Afterword: Turbulent Deflections
- Contributors
- Index