Mapping Multiple Literacies: An Introduction to Deleuzian Literacy Studies - Softcover

Masny, Diana; Cole, David R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1472569148 ISBN 13: 9781472569141

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Synopsis

Mapping Multiple Literacies brings together the latest theory and research in the fields of literacy study and European philosophy, Multiple Literacies Theory (MLT) and the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze. It frames the process of becoming literate as a fluid process involving multiple modes of presentation, and explains these processes in terms of making maps of our social lives and ways of doing things together.

For Deleuze, language acquisition is a social activity of which we are a part, but only one part amongst many others. Masny and Cole draw on Deleuze's thinking to expand the repertoires of literacy research and understanding. They outline how we can understand literacy as a social activity and map the ways in which becoming literate may take hold and transform communities. The chapters in this book weave together theory, data and practice to open up a creative new area of literacy studies and to provoke vigorous debate about the sociology of literacy.

About this title

About the Authors

David R. Cole is Associate Professor in Education at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

CLAIRE COLEBROOK teaches English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1472569148
• ISBN 13: 9781472569141
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208