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Literacy discourses is an ethnographic study §concerned with people s use and representations of§literacy in two residential quarters in Distrito §Federal, the federation district within§which is the capital city of Brazil. It is a §detailed description of situated literacies in§particular domains such as home and community, and §it involves knowing literacy practices at both §individual and social level. Besides, it is a §critical explanation of how these§literacies relate to other domains such as work and §school. Informal ways of learning§literacy are also given attention as part of the §everyday use. An integration between the New §Literacy Studies and Critical Discourse§Analysis is made for the study of literacy as §discourse in the link between local settings§and global practices. As a main proposition, these §situated literacies are classified as lifeworld and §systems literacies, derived from Habermas s theory. §This classification is meant to show the advantage §of providing ways to understand§relationships between vernacular and dominant §literacies, which do not figure as§discrete elements but exist in hybrid practices.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Literacy

• Full title: Literacy Discourses
• Subtitle: A sociocultural critique in brazilian communities
• Author: Guilherme Rios
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 284
• EAN: 9783639128482
• ISBN: 3639128486
• ID: 06821602
• Publisher: VDM Verlag
• Weight: 417 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. March 2009

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