Government social mobility concerns over literacy…
Languages travel, carried by people on the move, borne by artifacts and embedded in networks of contact. Semiotic mobility has increasingly become a crucial perspective from which to understand and theorize language. However, the intense interest enjoyed by issues of mobility and language is not a recent phenomenon, and can be traced directly or indirectly to a concern with mobility.
Consequently, the government has announced a funding commitment of twenty million pounds, in support of English language classes, so as to foster community integration, and social mobility. Therefore, Language, Literacy and Diversity, edited by Christopher Stroud and Mastin Prinsloo, stands to bring together researchers who are leading the innovative and important re-theorization of language and literacy in relation to social mobility, multilingualism and globalization.
Traditionally, studies of moving words have been filtered through bounded notions of language and community. From this perspective, linguistic forms are treated as belonging to (expert) speakers of the community, as displaying structural integrity and as being targets of acquisition by learners.
Language, Literacy and Diversity instead examines local and global flows of people, language and literacy in relation to social practice; the role (and nature) of boundary maintenance or disruption in global, transnational and trans-local contexts; and the lived experiences of individuals on the front lines of global, transnational and trans-local processes.
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