Talk, Text and Technology - Literacy and Social Practice in a Remote Indigenous Community

This is an ethnography of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. It traces one group from the introduction of alphabetic literacy to the arrival of digital literacies. It examines social, cultural and linguistic practices across the generations and addresses the implications for language and literacy socialisation.

About the author

Inge Kral is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at The Australian National University. Her work as an educator and researcher in Indigenous Australia for nearly three decades has ranged across literacy, applied linguistics, anthropology and new media.

Summary

This is an ethnography of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. It traces one group from the introduction of alphabetic literacy to the arrival of digital literacies. It examines social, cultural and linguistic practices across the generations and addresses the implications for language and literacy socialisation.

Product details

• Authors: Inge Kral
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2012
• EAN: 9781847697592
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-759-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 210 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 554 g
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy; Critical Language and Literacy Studies; Critical Language and Literacy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories