The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies

The handbook offers a comprehensive view of the field of language and literacy studies. This book is an essential reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students and those researching and working in the areas of applied linguistics and language and literacy.

Auteur

Jennifer Rowsell is Professor and Canada Research Chair at Brock University. She has cowritten and written several books in the areas of New Literacy Studies, multimodality and multiliteracies, including Working with Multimodality (Routledge, 2013).

Kate Pahl is a Professor of Literacies in Education at The University of Sheffield. She is the author, with Jennifer Rowsell, of several books on literacy including Artifactual Literacies: Every Object Tells a Story (2010), and Materializing Literacies in Communities (2014).

Résumé
The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies offers a comprehensive view of the field of language and literacy studies. With forty-three chapters reflecting new research from leading scholars in the field, the handbook pushes at the boundaries of existing fields and combines with related fields and disciplines to develop a lens on contemporary scholarship and emergent fields of inquiry. The Handbook is divided into eight sections:The foundations of literacy studiesSpace-focused approachesTime-focused approachesMultimodal approachesDigital approachesHermeneutic approachesMaking meaning from the everydayCo-constructing literacies with communitiesThis is the first handbook of literacy studies to recognise new trends and evolving trajectories together with a focus on radical epistemologies of literacy. The Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies is an essential reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students and those researching and working in the areas of applied linguistics and language and literacy.

Contenu

List of Figures

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction Jennifer Rowsell and Kate Pahl *

• PART I

The foundations of literacy studies

1 The social and linguistic turns in studying language and literacy

David Bloome and Judith Green *

• 2 The New Literacy Studies

*James Paul Gee

• 3 Postcolonial approaches to literacy: understanding the "other"

*Rahat Naqvi

• 4 Critical literacy education: a kaleidoscopic view of the field * Rebecca Rogers and Katherine O'Daniels

• 5 Bi/multilingual literacies in literacy studies

Angel M. Y. Lin and David C. S. Li

PART II

Space-focused approaches *

• 6 Socio-spatial approaches to literacy studies: rethinking the social constitution and politics of space

Kathy A. Mills and Barbara Comber

7 Ecological approaches to literacy research

Sue Nichols *

• 8 Rural literacies: text and content beyond the metropolis

*Michael Corbett

• 9 Urban literacies

*Valerie Kinloch

• 10 Indigenous literacies in literacy studies * Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza

• 11 Faith literacies

Andrey Rosowsky

PART III

Time-focused approaches *

• 12 Historical inquiry in literacy education: calling on clio

*Bill Green and Phillip Cormack

• 13 Postmodernism and literacy studies * Lalitha Vasudevan, Kristine Rodriguez Kerr, Tara L. Conley, and Joseph Riina-Ferrie

14 Longitudinal studies and literacy studies

*Catherine Compton-Lilly

• 15 Literacy policy and curriculum

*Jim Cummins

• PART IV

Multimodal approaches

16 Multimodal social semiotics: writing in online contexts

*Myrrh Domingo, Carey Jewitt and Gunther Kress

• 17 The semiotic mobility of literacy: four analytical approaches

*Denise Newfield

• 18 Remaking meaning across modes in literacy studies

*Diane Mavers

• 19 Multimodality and sensory ethnographies

*Abigail Hackett

• 20 Cultural affordances of visual mode texts in and of Japanese landscapes and young children's emerging comprehension of semiotic texts

*Dylan Yamada-Rice

• 21 Social design literacies: designing action literacies for fast-changing lives

*Jay Lemke and Caspar van Helden

PART V

Digital approaches

22 Popular culture, digital worlds and second language learners

*Alice Chik

• 23 Videogames and literacies: historical threads and contemporary practices

*Sandra Schamroth Abrams

• 24 Virtual spaces in literacy studies

*Julia Gillen

• 25 Consumer literacies and virtual world games

*Rebekah Willett

• 26 Facebook narratives

*Julia Davies

• PART VI

Hermeneutic approaches

27 Literary theory and new literacy studies: conversations across fields * Richard Steadman-Jones and Kate Pahl

• 28 Looking good: aesthetics, multimodality and literacy studies

*Theo van Leeuwen

• 29 Poetry, metaphor and performance: literacy as a philosophical act

*Kathleen Gallagher

• 30 Phenomenology and literacy studies

*Rachel Heydon and Jennifer Rowsell

• 31 Hermeneutics of literacy pedagogy

*Rob Simon and Gerald Campano

• PART VII

Making meaning from the everyday

32 Materialising literacies

*Kate Pahl and Hugh Escott

• 33 Moving voices: literacy narratives in a testimonial culture

Mary Hamilton * *

34 (Im)materialising literacies

*Cathy Burnett

• 35 English language learners, participatory ethnography and embodied knowing within literacy * Burcu Yaman Ntelioglou

36 Making, remaking, and reimagining the everyday: play, creativity, and popular media

*Karen E. Wohlwend

• 37 Literacy as worldmaking: multimodality, creativity and cosmopolitanism

*Amy Stornaiuolo

PART VIII

Co-constructing literacies with communities

38 Literacy studies and situated methods: exploring the social organization of household activity and family media use

*Lisa H. Schwartz and Kris D. Gutiérrez

• 39 Oral history as a community literacy project
  *Valerie J. Janesick

40 Participatory methodologies and literacy studies

*Saskia Stille

• 41 The affordances and challenges of visual methodologies in literacy studies

*Maureen Kendrick

• 42 Literacy with mobiles in print poor communities

*Sue Muller, Hilary Janks, and James EM Stiles

• 43 Literacies and research as social change

Claudia Mitchell and Casey Burkholder

Index