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Literacy and Multimodality Brian Street 2012 By Thiago Hermont

Historical perspectives Multimodality• It is an approach to communication wherein textual modes work in concert with each other without a necessary privileging of one over another.• It is guided by the interests of a sign-maker at given moment in time, place, and with particular ways of making the sign.

Historical perspectives New Literacies• The term ‘The New Literacy Studies’ (Gee) describes the ‘social turn’ that had taken place in the 1980’s and 1990’s as researchers had documented literacy practices in community context, often using ethnography to aid an understanding of these practices.  Ethnography: a way in which repeated practices in everyday life could be accessed, understood and interpreted.

The role of ethnography• By adopting na ethnographic perspective, it is possible to take a more focused approach to study particular aspects of everyday life and cultural practices of a social group.• Central to an ethnographic perspective is the use of theories of culture and inquiry practices derived from anthropology or sociology to guide the research.

Learning ethnography is a lot like learning tojuggle. Both call for practice, closeobservation, and the challenge of having tomanage more and more balls in the air.

BRINGING THE TWO TRADITIONS TOGETHER

New Literacy Studies and MultimodalityTogether they are significant not only in termsof educational contexts but also in terms ofeveryday communicative practices.

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by thiagohermont on May 10, 2012

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