Style, Identity and Literacy

English in Singapore

AvChristopher Stroud,Lionel Wee

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Del 13 i serien Critical Language and Literacy Studies

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Beskrivning

Style, Identity and Literacy: English in Singapore is a qualitative study of the literacy practices of a group of Singaporean adolescents, relating their patterns of interaction – both inside and outside the classroom – to the different levels of social organization in Singaporean society (home, peer group and school). Combining field data gathered through a series of detailed interviews with available classroom observations, the study focuses on six adolescents from different ethnic and social backgrounds as they negotiate the learning of English against the backdrop of multilingual Singapore. This book provides social explanations for the difficulties and challenges these adolescents face by drawing on current developments in sociolinguistics, literacy studies, English language teaching and language policy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-11-28
Mått:148 x 210 x 14 mm
Vikt:333 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Critical Language and Literacy Studies
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Channel View Publications Ltd
ISBN:9781847695956

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Christopher Stroud is a Senior Professor at the University of the Western Cape and Professor of Bilingual Research at Stockholm University. He has researched and written widely on multilingualism, language planning and policy and language education in contexts as diverse as Papua New Guinea, South East Asia, Scandinavia and Southern Africa. He is currently working on elaborating the idea of linguistic citizenship.Lionel Wee is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English Language & Literature at the National University of Singapore. He is the author of Language Without Rights (Oxford University Press, 2011), and is currently working on a book about organizational styling.

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Style, Identity and Literacy is a remarkable achievement: it brings together the close analysis of the ethnography of communication with a broader political economy of literacy based on Bourdieu's models of capital and exchange.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1: Social Practices and Linguistic MarketsChapter 2: Multilingualism in Late-Modern Singapore: A PortraitChapter 3: Multilingualism in Late Modernity: Literacy as a Reflexive Performance of IdentityChapter 4: Some Data about our DataChapter 5: Fandi and Ping: Literacy Practices and the Performance of Identities on Ambivalent MarketsChapter 6: Edwin, Wen and Yan: Styling Literacy Practices Inside and Outside the ClassroomChapter 7: Sha: A ComparisonChapter 8: Pedagogy, Literacy And IdentityChapter 9: The Dynamics of Language Distribution in Late-Modern Multilingual Singapore