TY - BOOK ID - 77939803 TI - Multilingual literacies: reading and writing different worlds AU - Martin-Jones, Marilyn AU - Jones, Kathryn PY - 2000 SN - 9027298688 1282254685 9786612254680 0585462658 9780585462653 9789027298683 9789027218049 9027218048 9781282254688 9781588110251 1588110257 9781556197482 1556197489 9789027218056 9027218056 1588110257 1556197489 9027218056 6612254688 PB - Amsterdam Benjamins DB - UniCat KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Great Britain KW - Literacy. KW - Multilingualism. KW - Sociolinguistics. KW - Language and culture KW - Linguistics KW - Sociology KW - Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) KW - Language and languages KW - Illiteracy KW - Education KW - General education UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77939803 AB - The research in this unique collection lies at the interface between the fields of bilingualism and literacy. It deepens our understanding of the significance of reading and writing as social practices and opens up new lines of inquiry for research on multilingualism. The authors incorporate theoretical and methodological insights from both fields and provide detailed accounts of everyday practices of reading and writing in different multilingual settings. The focus is primarily on linguistic minority groups in Britain and on the language and literacy experiences of children and adults in rural and urban communities. Together, the chapters of the volume build up a rich and illuminating picture of specific ways in which literacy is bound up with cultural practices and with different ways of seeing the world. They also address fundamental questions about the relationship between language, literacy and power in multi-ethnic contexts. ER -