Talk, Text and Technology : : Literacy and Social Practice in a Remote Indigenous Community / / Inge Kral.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Kral, Inge,
• MitwirkendeR: Kubota, Ryuko,; Morgan, Brian,; Pennycook, Alastair,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)

Talk, Text and Technology is an ethnographic exploration of language, learning and literacy in remote Indigenous Australia. This unique work traces the historical transformation of one Indigenous group across four generations. The manner in which each generation adopts, adapts and incorporates new innovations and technologies into social practice and cultural processes is illuminated - from first mission contact and the introduction of literacy in the 1930s to youth media practices today. This book examines social, cultural and linguistic practices and addresses the implications for language and literacy socialisation.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Historical Chronology -- Series Editors’ Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Living in the Now -- 1. From Forgetting to Remembering -- 2. Transmitting Orality and Literacy as Cultural Practice -- Part 2: New Figured Worlds -- 3. ‘Mission Time’: Adapting to the New -- 4. Everything was Different because of the Changing -- 5. The Cultural Production of Literate Identities -- Part 3: Past, Present, Future -- 6. The Meaning of Things in Time and Space -- 7. You Fellas Grow up in a Different World -- Conclusion -- Ngaanyatjarra Glossary -- Appendix: Literacy Assessments -- References -- Index