Languages and Literacies as Mobile and Placed Resources

Name: Languages and Literacies as Mobile and Placed Resources
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Languages and Literacies as Mobile and Placed ResourcesAuthor(s): Sue Nichols, Collette Snowden\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138604575, 978-1138604575\nSynopsis\nLanguages and Literacies as Mobile and Placed Resources explores how languages and literacies are implicated in the complex relationship between place and mobility. It is a book that represents the next wave in literacy studies in which theories of mobility, networking and globalisation have emerged to account for the dynamic landscape of globally circulating communication resources. Authors in this volume take up a more complex way of thinking about resources, applying it to consider languages and literacies as assemblages or as parts of assemblages that are involved in learning, teaching and meaning-making. The book addresses forms of text and mobility that arise in contexts outside of formal education including marketing, charity, journalism, com.